Prognosis
Treatment after exposure (receiving the vaccines), PEP, is highly successful in preventing the disease if administered promptly, in general within 10 days of infection. Begun with little or no delay, PEP is 100% effective against rabies. In the case of significant delay in administering PEP, the treatment still has a chance of success.
In unvaccinated humans, rabies is usually fatal after neurological symptoms have developed, but prompt postexposure vaccination may prevent the virus from progressing. Rabies kills around 55,000 people a year, mostly in Asia and Africa.
Survival data using the Milwaukee protocol are available from the rabies registry.
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