Rabies

Vaccination against rabies is advised if you’re travelling to an area where you could get rabies, particularly if:

– you’re staying for a month or more

– there’s unlikely to be quick access to appropriate medical care

– you plan to do activities that could put you at increased risk of exposure to rabies, such as cycling or running

Vaccination involves a course of 3 injections before you travel, usually given over a period of 28 days.

If you’re bitten, licked or scratched by an animal in a country where rabies is a problem, further doses of rabies vaccine (with or without a special anti-rabies injection given around the wound) may be required as emergency treatment.