Rabies Vaccine Schedule

The WHO recommends 2 main immunization strategies for the prevention of human rabies:

• Post exposure prophylaxis (PEP) which includes extensive and thorough wound washing at the rabies-exposure site, together with rabies immunoglobulin (RIG) administration if indicated, and the administration of a course of several doses of rabies vaccine;
• Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) which is the administration of several doses of rabies vaccine to high risk populations before exposure to rabies.

For both PEP and PrEP, vaccines can be administered by either intra-dermal (ID) or intra-muscular (IM) routes. BioShoot is a five-dose schedule and should be given intra-muscular (IM) routes.

Usually after being scratched or bitten by a cat or dog, the injection of rabies vaccine is not a one-shot injection. According to the doctor's order, there are still several injections that need to go to the CDC for injection. If you forget to inject or the time interval is too short or too long, then injection will affect the efficacy of vaccines. Therefore, it is necessary to follow the schedule in a timely manner.