Patient: About a week ago, she was bitten by the family’s puppy and her hand broke the skin and bled. I washed it with soap and water and applied iodine. Now that the wound is basically healed, do I still need to go to the hospital for additional rabies vaccination? Rao Huiying, Institute of Liver Diseases, Peking University People’s Hospital: The incubation period for rabies is mostly 30 – 90 days, and those shorter than 10 days are very rare. Generally speaking, those who have been bitten or scratched by animals and have not received rabies vaccine in time can still be prevented from developing rabies as long as the vaccination is given promptly. Because it is difficult to determine in advance whether an injured person will develop the disease or not, and it is difficult to accurately project the incubation period of the injured person, vaccination should be carried out in accordance with the principles of “better early than late” and “better to make up than to miss”. The earlier the rabies vaccination, the better. After being bitten by a dog, the general injured person should receive rabies vaccination on day 0, day 3, day 7, day 14, and day 28, and the severely injured person must receive 2-3 doses of vaccine after the full vaccination is completed, i.e., on day 15, day 75, or day 10, day 20, or day 90 after the full vaccination. In addition, the vaccine should be administered within 48 hours after the injury is caused, and longer time can be guaranteed for individual imported vaccines.