My approach to rabies vaccine has changed over time.
- In 2007 prior to a ride across Russia, consulted with a travel clinic and in the end decided not to get the vaccine. During the trip, my cycling partner was bitten by a dog in Siberia. She had not had the vaccine but on return to the Netherlands she went through the shot sequence.
- Prior to a trip across Africa in 2013, decided to get a rabies vaccine, in part because of the Russian experience.
- Prior to a trip across the Americas in 2016, consulted with travel clinic again. While I perhaps still had some immunity from previous shots, I was also told it was not longer guidance to get the vaccine unless one was in a particular risk category such as a veterinarian going to work overseas.