Rabies attacks are not usually present 5 years after a dog bite.
When a person is bitten by a dog, cat, wolf, or other animal that carries the rabies virus, he or she may be infected with rabies. Although it is possible to contract rabies after being bitten, not everyone who is bitten will contract rabies.
Generally, if you are infected, the incubation period from infection with the virus to seizure is about a week, and in some people the incubation period can be 1 to 3 months, but usually not more than 1 year.
Since rabies is an acute infectious disease caused by the rabies virus. Currently there is no effective treatment, once the attack mortality rate is close to 100%. Therefore, rabies is still prevention-oriented. After being bitten by an animal, don’t take any chances and immediately seek medical treatment and rabies vaccination at the nearest hospital.
Five doses of rabies vaccine should be given on the day of the bite, the 3rd day, the 7th day, the 14th day and the 28th day. For severe bites, rabies serum should be administered immediately. Vaccination should be done at a regular healthcare facility.