Consequences of a rabbit bite without vaccination

The two biggest concerns after a rabbit bite are tetanus as well as rabies. The significance of infection after a rabbit bite is not very high compared to rabies. According to the 2016 guidelines for rabies prevention, large-scale surveillance of wild and domestic rodents in rabies-endemic areas of the Americas and Europe has shown that such animals are not reservoir hosts for rabies and are not involved in the epidemiology or transmission of the disease. That is, including domestic and wild rabbits, are rarely infected with rabies, and no evidence has ever been found that such animals cause rabies in humans. Therefore rabies vaccination can be dispensed with after a bite, but tetanus toxoid should be administered appropriately, depending on the condition of the wound.