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| Dear Doctor, I am from Pakistan and my qestion is Today a Dog cut to my hand and little scraches comes in my hand. I wash my hand with soop and whent to the doctor and he put me ats injection. and said no need to worry. In Pakistan dog cut treetment is 14 injecton is in bally. but if the scraches are deep . because somebody told me if dog cut to men the men will be mad i am so worried tell me about my treatment that i do Thanks
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| Thank you for your inquiry We regret the 'Ask the Doctor' service is for Russian residents only. However, any dog bite in a country where rabies is a possibility must be taken seriously. The 'depth' of a bite is not a good guide to whether the bite is likely to be transmit rabies (in any case rabies virus is transmitted by saliva and even relatively superficial scratches can still transmit rabies if the dog is rabid). On the evidence available we would still advise a full course of rabies post-exposure vaccination. These comments are made for the purpose of discussion and should NOT be used as recommendations for or against therapies or other treatments. An individual patient is always advised to consult their own physician.
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