09/28/2025
Today is World Rabies Day - an important day to bring awareness and education about this fatal disease.
⚠️CW: Slide 8, videos of four animals suspected to have or with confirmed rabies⚠️
Given the intense vaccine hesitancy in veterinary medicine spilling over from human medicine (and not being aided by political clowns in positions of in the US right now), I decided to make a much more in-depth post about rabies, because we are seeing more rabies non-vaccination amongst domestic species and currently there is a multi-state outbreak being tracked right now in the US. I tried to write this for the average person, not just those of us in animal care.
Six people have died from rabies in the US since September of last year, and thousands more in other parts of the world. If vaccine hesitancy continues to worsen, or vaccine rollbacks go into law, rabies could absolutely become more of a problem in the US and other places with regular vaccine access.
If you're worried about a possible rabies exposure, please contact your healthcare provider or your animal's veterinarian to talk about what you can do to keep you and/or your animals safe.
Vaccination saves lives! 🖤
***rVeterinarian (I am tagging the following to increase awareness to my target audience)
