This is very important because the time elapsing before the disease breaks out, is determined by the place of the bite, scratch or whatever. The closer to nerve endings, the faster symptoms will show. Never think there isn't enough time to get medical attention. Pre-exposure vaccination is available in different forms. In the West there is a very good vaccine with few side effects.
Examples are cave explorers, laboratory workers, ornithologists, forest rangers or taxidermists.
There is absolutely no cure whatsoever once the symptoms have shown. Therefore treatment can only be supportive. Surviving rabies can easily be called a miracle and even then it's very likely that there will be permanent nerve damage. Next This is another illness on the increase, but at the moment it poses no great threat to travellers. Seven days after contact with the infected insect there's a sudden onset of headaches, fever, chills and eventually vomiting.