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(Pediatrics in Review. 1980;1:336.)
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Rabies Prophylaxis

In the August issue of PIR (1:46, 1979), the common sources of contact for rabies were listed as dogs, cats, rats, foxes, etc. As one reader pointed out to us, "While rat bites are an index of obscenely substandard housing conditions and may cause various bacterial infections in the bite site or systemically, they are rarely, if ever, a cause of a course of postexposure rabies prophylaxis." CDC has confirmed only two rodents (neither a rat) as being rabid in the past seven years. There is no need to initiate rabies prophylaxis following rat bites.






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