Our dogs and cats get yearly rabies shots, where I live its free and the government even sets up a mobile clinic in our neighborhood. One shot lasts them a year and doesn’t seem to have any negative side effects. Why can’t humans get a similar shot when we go in for our flu shot?
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Rabies vaccines for humans are expensive. At least in developed countries, rabies cases in humans are very rare. It isn’t worth the cost to pre-vaccinate the entire population for a disease only a few people will get a year, especially when there is a treatment for that disease (getting the shot after a bite).
Dogs and cats are much more likely to get into situations where they could get bitten by a rabid animal than most humans, and they aren’t able to communicate to us that they have been bitten so that they could go get treated quickly. As such, it is necessary to give them regular preventative vaccinations.
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