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raygundan t1_iuis7j7 wrote

Reply to comment by mfb- in Why isn't a rabies vaccine given to children? by EmbarrassedActive4

The link you used shows cost is for post-exposure prophylaxis, which is much more expensive than up-front vaccination.

Which is not to say there's no cost associated with vaccination, just that it's probably an order of magnitude (or two) lower than if you were giving everybody the post-exposure treatment.

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mfb- t1_iuitrqr wrote

I found a range of $500 to $1200 that's explicitly for pre-exposure vaccination. Multiply that by 3.6 million children and we get costs of 2-4 billions every year, and that's assuming we only vaccinate every child once and then skip the follow-up measurements/doses discussed in other comments.

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