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Recently, a young women was bitten in India by a stray dog; she died of rabies after returning to the Federal Republic of Germany [6]. In view of the quality of the modern rabies vaccines, there is good reason to ask whether vaccination should be recommended before travel to areas endemic for rabies.
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Bock, H.L., Clemens, R., Korger, G., Quast, U. (1989). Risk/Benefit Evaluation of Pre-expositional Use of PCEC Rabies Vaccine in Travel Medicine. In: Steffen, R., Lobel, H., Haworth, J., Bradley, D.J. (eds) Travel Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73772-5_48
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