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The "cure" for rabies is to treat it with a vaccine prior to symptoms appearing. The rabbies vaccine is 100% effective and you will not become symptomatic if you treat soon after the bite. The Milwaukee protocol has been tried and it's a last ditch effort for people who didn't get the vaccine shortly after the bite and are now showing symptoms. They don't even know if the Milwaukee Protocol is what prevented death or if the people it worked on were somehow resistant to rabies.
Why can't we just get a rabies vaccine when we're kids, or every few years, like most other vaccines? Why does it have to be after the bite event?
~~Considering that it has to go through the belly button, I'd rather not, thanks.~~
This is apparently not the case anymore since the 1980s.
Modern rabies vaccines are injected into the upper arm.
Oh, that's good to know. Thanks.