Older Adults Delay Seeking Rabies Treatment After Animal Bites, Hangzhou

Older Adults Delay Seeking Rabies Treatment After Animal Bites, Hangzhou

Rabies remains one of the deadliest infectious diseases known to medicine, with a case fatality rate that approaches 100 percent once clinical symptoms appear. Yet the disease is almost entirely preventable if exposed individuals receive timely post-exposure prophylaxis, a regimen of vaccination and, in higher-risk cases, immunoglobulin administration that can stop the virus before it reaches the nervous system. A new retrospective study from Ha…