This happened last Thurs in the evening. I haven't been given any rabies vaccine.
I was advised by the hotel staff to go see a doctor that they have in all of the Similares Pharmacias here.
The bite wound was cleaned by a very young doctor that was in the office in the evening. He told me that rabies is not a problem in Mexico and the issue was risk of infection so he gave me a prescription for 3 injections of antibiotics, 24 hrs apart. He gave me the first injection and I was on my way.
I didn't think much about it because I was trying to track down my motorcycle which had been stolen and I was a bit preoccupied. After I get my motorcycle back I start to investigate rabies. There is lots of information out there that is conflicting.
I didn't follow the schedule for the antibiotics very closely and just got the third one this morning. The more mature doctor told me that I should have gone to the Center of Health that was not far away and gotten a rabies vaccine shot. It would have been better to do it earlier but I have up to 15 days. Tomorrow it will be open.
There is a paper on the internet put out by the Pan American Health Organization that says that Mexico did not have any cases of rabies in humans that was passed to them by dogs between 2013 and 2016. I mentioned this to the doctor and he told me that there were 3 cases in Chihuahua this year. There is lots of info but it doesn't all agree.
The dog did not appear to be sick and took direction from a shop keeper. I haven't been able to track them down. Holiday weekend.
Should I be worried?
Another graph from the University of Glasgow.
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