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Immunizations - travel vaccinations - Management
What are the adverse effects of rabies vaccine?
- Local reactions may occur — such as redness, swelling, or pain at the site of injection — within 24–48 hours of administration.
- Systemic reactions such as headache, fever, muscle aches, vomiting, and urticarial rashes are rare.
- Delayed hypersensitivity reactions have been reported from the USA. Reactions may become more severe with repeated doses.
- Extremely rarely neurological conditions, such as Guillain-Barré syndrome have been reported (a causal association with vaccination is not established).
[DH, 2006c]
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