How does the rabies vaccine work? If the virus sneakily gets to your brain, why after vaccination it starts detecting the virus given it was not possible to find it before?

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How does the rabies vaccine work? If the virus sneakily gets to your brain, why after vaccination it starts detecting the virus given it was not possible to find it before?

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Vaccines don’t usually contain the actual live virus, they inactivate it meaning that it can’t really “hide” as an active virus would.

Additionally, vaccines usually contain an [adjuvant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunologic_adjuvant), which will increase the body’s immunological response.

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