A member asked:

If someone was possibly bitten by a bat <1 year ago, should that individual be concerned since some diseases have latency periods of years?

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Get rabies: vaccination. It would be prudent to get rabies vaccination as about 1% of the cases have an incubation period longer than one year.

Answered 7/1/2018

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