Actually the vaccine only works pre-exposure or immediately post exposure if the virus hasn't reached the nervous system yet. The rabies vaccine stops it from ever infecting you - it does nothing visible because it stops you from ever getting it. No "lessens the symptoms" or "reduces the spread" like you may have heard froom other vaccines that don't actually work to stop infection entirely - in fact those sorts of claims required changing teh definition of what a vaccine even is just to call them vaccines.
If you get even one actual rabies symptom you're effectively dead already its the most lethal virus ever known to man with only a small handful of people having survived actual symptomatic rabies. Literally, last I looked the total number of survivors in all of history was around 10 people and all in the last few decades since "the milwaukee protocol" was discovered.
Survivors are put in a coma and cooled as much as possible without killing them, reducing brain swelling in the hopes of survival. Rabies causes the brain to swell eventually causing death. Survivors of the protocol almost certainly have brain damage, but they survive which is infinitely higher odds than the 0% survival rate of untreated rabies.
Medications are used to cause coma and increase survivability in a cold state, but nothing is actually administered to fight rabies itself at that point - the body has to fight it off using nature's immune system.
You don't want rabies - if you are even possibly at risk of exposure get the vaccine first, not after exposure because post exposure has worked but it has also failed. Pre-exposure vaccination definitely stops infection statistically speaking. Meanwhile, the Protocol is a better than 0.0000% chance at survival but its still not good odds.
One word: rabies. No one survived rabies until a vaccine was invented.
Actually the vaccine only works pre-exposure or immediately post exposure if the virus hasn't reached the nervous system yet. The rabies vaccine stops it from ever infecting you - it does nothing visible because it stops you from ever getting it. No "lessens the symptoms" or "reduces the spread" like you may have heard froom other vaccines that don't actually work to stop infection entirely - in fact those sorts of claims required changing teh definition of what a vaccine even is just to call them vaccines.
If you get even one actual rabies symptom you're effectively dead already its the most lethal virus ever known to man with only a small handful of people having survived actual symptomatic rabies. Literally, last I looked the total number of survivors in all of history was around 10 people and all in the last few decades since "the milwaukee protocol" was discovered.
Survivors are put in a coma and cooled as much as possible without killing them, reducing brain swelling in the hopes of survival. Rabies causes the brain to swell eventually causing death. Survivors of the protocol almost certainly have brain damage, but they survive which is infinitely higher odds than the 0% survival rate of untreated rabies.
Medications are used to cause coma and increase survivability in a cold state, but nothing is actually administered to fight rabies itself at that point - the body has to fight it off using nature's immune system.
You don't want rabies - if you are even possibly at risk of exposure get the vaccine first, not after exposure because post exposure has worked but it has also failed. Pre-exposure vaccination definitely stops infection statistically speaking. Meanwhile, the Protocol is a better than 0.0000% chance at survival but its still not good odds.