Shah Ira
Department of Pediatrics, B.J. Wadia Hospital for Children, Mumbai, India.
J Travel Med. 2008 Jan-Feb;15(1):58-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2007.00168.x.
Rabies is highly endemic in India and seen with dog bites from rabid dogs. In India, nervous tissue vaccine is commonly used as it is inexpensive and freely available despite frequent neurological complications. Neurological complications seen with traditional vaccine are morbid and the medical community should switch over to the cell culture rabies vaccine in spite of the expense to prevent these complications with rabies vaccine.
狂犬病在印度高度流行,多由感染狂犬病的犬只咬伤所致。在印度,神经组织疫苗因其价格低廉且可免费获取而被广泛使用,尽管其常引发神经并发症。传统疫苗引发的神经并发症很严重,尽管细胞培养狂犬病疫苗价格昂贵,但医学界仍应转而使用该疫苗,以预防狂犬病疫苗引发的这些并发症。