You can get get rabies from being bitten by a rabid animal but it's not guaranteed. Even so it's very important that Donna get that wound checked out and treated for rabies.
Just because I'm not on THEIR side, doesn't mean I'm on YOURS.

Da f u K is up with Aussie land, everything there tries to kill U!
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Even if they get the shot. Unfortunately the vaccine doesn't work on this particular strain. Gogo Australian wildlife!

Even if they ge the shot?
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The rabies strain found in America is survivable if given the vaccine before the onset of neurological infection. The rabies strain carried by Australian bats ( Lyssavirus ) is fatal, no one has survived.

I know humans can get rabies shots after getting bitten or scratched (happened to my uncle who drunkenly tried to fight a raccoon), so Donna would have to. You have to get a lot, and they're really painful.
My question is: would Tad have to get the shots as well? Rabies is spread through saliva and blood contact. When his mom was doing CPR on him, I know some of the blood and saliva got in his mouth. If he even had a cut that got Cujo's or his mother's blood or spit in it, he could get it too.
If he were my kid, he'd have the shots, just to be safe.
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I laughed. That was a good one.
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I thought it was funny. It reminded me of something I would say. Thanks for the chuckle.
I could have been at a barbecue!

The joke's on you because I'm not in jr. high, and, as a matter of fact, I think I'm hilarious.
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oh I get it! You think you're funny! Are you in jr high? Bring it on.
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oh I get it! You think you're funny! Are you in jr high? Bring it on.
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Yes, she would get rabies and then she'd start eating people, too. The sequel would be called "Donna" and would be three times as scary.
Jaan Pehechan Ho

Indeed.
The only way the post-exposure rabies vaccines would be ineffective would be if they were not given until after symptoms began.
Pre-exposure vaccines are also, thus far at least, completely effective. I don't think there are any incidences of vaccinated people (provided their vaccines are up to date) contracting rabies. I've had them, as a wildlife biologist, and I've handled and been bitten by bats with no kind of issue. (Although, I highly doubt that any of the bats I handled had rabies).

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You have a better chance at beating cancer than surviving a rabid dog bite.
I don't know where you get THAT from, but people get rabies shots (after exposure) all the time.
I know 3 people personally, 2 of them are my relatives! They got bitten by a bat last summer.
I don't know how effective vaccinations are (which are given BEFORE exposure).
I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus.
Didn't he discover America?
Penfold, shush.

The vaccination does not guarantee anything. You speak of it as having shots will simply cure rabies. In reality, there's no real vaccinations for rabies. Rabies is a hit or miss with the vaccinations. You have a better chance at beating cancer than surviving a rabid dog bite.

Yes she would. But as long as she got the rabies shots within the short safety-window of time she would recover.
"I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus."
"Didn't he discover America?"
"Penfold, shush."

In the book, she has to get the rabies shots because yes, she would have gotten rabies. The movie, of course, just ends at the farmhouse.