Editing Post-exposure prophylaxis (section)

== Rabies ==
PEP is commonly and very effectively used to prevent the onset of [[rabies]] after a bite by a suspected-rabid animal, since diagnostic tools are not available to detect rabies infection prior to the onset of the nearly always-fatal disease.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/rabies |title=Rabies |publisher=[[World Health Organization]] |website=www.who.int |access-date=2019-06-16 |archive-date=2019-05-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190509201021/https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/rabies |url-status=live }}</ref> The treatment consists of a series of injections of [[rabies vaccine]] and [[immunoglobulin]].<ref name="titleWHO |Guide for post-exposure prophylaxis">{{cite web |url=https://www.who.int/rabies/human/postexp/en/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040627051139/http://www.who.int/rabies/human/postexp/en/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 27, 2004 |title=Rabies: Guide for post-exposure prophylaxis|publisher=[[World Health Organization]]|access-date=2013-05-28 }}</ref> [[Rabies vaccine]] is given to both humans and animals who have been potentially exposed to [[rabies]].<ref name="Wiktor_1984">{{cite journal|vauthors=Wiktor TJ, Macfarlan RI, Reagan KJ, Dietzschold B, Curtis PJ, Wunner WH, Kieny MP, Lathe R, Lecocq JP, Mackett M |title=Protection from rabies by a vaccinia virus recombinant containing the rabies virus glycoprotein gene|journal=Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.|volume=81|issue=22 |pages=7194–8 |year=1984 |pmid=6095272 | doi = 10.1073/pnas.81.22.7194 |pmc=392104|bibcode=1984PNAS...81.7194W|doi-access=free}}</ref>

As of 2018, the average estimated cost of rabies post-exposure prophylaxis was US$ 108 (along with travel costs and loss of income).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rabies |url=https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/rabies |access-date=2024-08-13 |website=www.who.int |language=en}}</ref>