In everyday life, many dogs are vaccinated just to prevent it from contracting rabies virus carried by the environment or by other dogs. If bitten by a rabies-vaccinated dog, should the rabies vaccine be given or not? The World Health Organization’s Center for Rabies Research has the following authoritative statement: Healthy dogs (cats, etc.) do not carry the virus. (The term “virulent” is a medical term meaning “infectious”. The term “non-infectious” means that even if a dog or cat is carrying the rabies virus, it is not contagious until it develops. If you are bitten by a vaccinated cat or dog, and the vaccination is within the validity period, if the bite victim does not have any skin damage, and the biting cat or dog is a healthy domestic pet, there is generally no need for vaccination, and washing the skin with plenty of soap and water is not a problem. If you are not sure whether there is skin damage, you can wipe the bite area with alcohol, and if there is pain, it indicates that there is skin damage, but the test is only accurate at the time of the bite, and is not accurate enough if measured some time afterwards. If there are superficial wounds, including broken skin, for insurance purposes, you need to go to the hospital in time for rabies vaccination. Depending on the wound situation, you can first take your pet to the hospital for an examination, or observe your pet at home for 10 days, and after determining that your pet has no symptoms of rabies you can basically rest assured that you can also terminate the rabies vaccination. The 10-day period is a deliberately extended period of safety observation by the World Health Organization. If a dog or cat remains healthy after 10 days, it can be judged that there is no chance of a person being infected with rabies and the rabies vaccination can be terminated. Bites from animals with abnormalities require timely vaccination: The pathology of the rabies virus is to attack the animal’s brain cells causing a rabies attack, at which point the animal usually shows very obvious abnormalities that can be easily identified. This is when the animal’s saliva is toxic (has the virus) and is contagious, so if you are bitten by such an animal, you must get the rabies vaccine.