Is it necessary to get rabies vaccine for being bitten or scratched by a dog?

Yes, if you are bitten or scratched by a dog, you must get rabies vaccine. Dogs may carry rabies virus whether they have rabies symptoms or not. Rabies is a disease with extremely high mortality. At present, rabies can only be prevented by injecting rabies vaccine. Therefore, after being bitten or scratched by a dog, the wound should be treated according to normal procedures, and rabies vaccine should be inoculated within 24 hours after the injury. If the scratch is serious, rabies immunoglobulin must be infiltrated around the wound. In addition, according to the specific situation, please ask the doctor to judge whether tetanus antitoxin needs to be injected.