Blocking factors: If you can get the vaccine before (for work) or soon after exposure,your body has time to build blocking factors (antibodies).These antibodies stop the rabies germ from circulating in your body and making you sick.The vaccine is made from inactivated (dead) virus, which tricks the body into thinking it is the real live virus and your body gets to build antibodies before the real germ can sicken U
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