Can oral rabies vaccine cause rabies?
Oral rabies vaccine does not contain the complete rabies virus and therefore cannot cause rabies. Researchers produced the oral rabies vaccinia virus such that it contains only a small fragment of genetic material from the rabies virus that leads to immunity against rabies. How would I most likely come in contact with a bait containing oral rabies vaccine? Human contacts with the liquid oral rabies vaccine are infrequent, even though millions of oral rabies vaccine doses have been distributed worldwide. During the spring and fall 2000 bait distributions, there were five reported instances of bait being found, however, there were no adverse effects. These reports indicated that most often pets located the bait and brought it to their owners. Is oral rabies vaccine harmful to pets? The oral rabies vaccine is one of the most extensively tested animal vaccines and is not harmful to pets. Studies on more than sixty species of animals, including domestic dog and cat, ferret, fox, gray squirr
