The original post: /r/askscience by /u/WinterAndCats on 2025-02-13 02:29:46.

I know that people who work with bats for example get rabies vaccines preemptively, but… it is quite unusual, and only if there is a good reason to do it, and even then, I think that, if bitten, it is recommended to go for post-exposure treatment. I asked my doctor whether I could get the vaccine and was told no, it just isn’t done. Given how deadly rabies is if contracted, it seems… odd?

However, my indoor cat who has never met anything bigger than a spider gets yearly rabies boosters.

Why can they get it and we can’t?