Indian Pediatrics - Editorial Home Past Issue About IP About IAP Feedback Links Author Info. Inactivated vaccines are not contraindicated, although the antibody production may not be optimal.
Rabies vaccine merits special considera-tion.
There is no option, because the choice is between certain death due to rabies and the rare probable risk of adverse reaction. Rabies vaccine is an inactivated vaccine and not a live attenuated vaccine. The two doses administered same day should be given at two separate sites. Reply Dr. Yash Paul suggests that the post-exposure rabies immunization should be modified in children who have had measles or chickenpox, or had been given measles or varicella vaccine, within 6 weeks before the rabies exposure. He would give the two doses the same day, but at separate sites.