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[deleted] OP t1_j4jmn5s wrote

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Alwayssunnyinarizona t1_j4jncdx wrote

You'll be at the whim of the county health department I suspect, but it's unlikely you'll have to go through another course if post-exp was less than a month or two ago. Protection lasts a decade or more, but health departments will have different ideas about when post-exp is necessary, and tend to lean towards public safety.

Get the bats taken care of and you'll have less to worry about!

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Level9TraumaCenter t1_j4jwopv wrote

> Protection lasts a decade or more, but health departments will have different ideas about when post-exp is necessary, and tend to lean towards public safety.

Titer every two years, except for the two opposite ends of the scale: those in labs researching rabies (every six months), and "Animal care professionals and others who frequently handle terrestrial mammals in regions without terrestrial rabies," i.e.: cavers (no titer checks). I believe that latter group is supposed to get a booster every three years.

Should be good for several years, such as in your case.

Source: knuckle-dragging, mud-eating caver.

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dropkickpa t1_j4k42n3 wrote

I'm 20 years out from my PrEP vaccination, my titers are still well within the protective range.

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EmilyU1F984 t1_j4kqypw wrote

You need to get your antibody titer checked.

There’s no other way to check whether a vaccination worked in causing immunity, and no other way to tell whether you still have sufficient immunity.

In most cases a fresh vaccine course will yield sufficient protection against infection.

Also: the bats do need to bite you. Any other contact doesn‘t risk infection.

If bitten depending on your local health care system they will either determine tigers to see whether you have sufficient immunity, or do a refresher course of the vaccination, with or without immunoglobulin depending on further circumstances (immunocompromised, vaccination a decade old etc)

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