When a liver-transplant patient urgently needed immune globulin serum, customer reps drove six hours to get the drug from Paducah, Ky. to the hospital.

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They show no signs of rabies but are being treated with five doses of the rabies vaccine and rabies immune globulin, which gives the body antibodies to protect itself against the rabies virus.

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If there is concern about an exposure to rabies, prophylaxis consisting of rabies immune globulin (an injection that contains human antibodies against the rabies virus) and rabies vaccine (four injections over the course of two weeks) is recommended.

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