Current Rabies Research
Current rabies research is trying to find a cure for a disease that seems to be nearly eradicated.
Research Possibility of Eradication
Many rabies researchers today are simply sitting around, trying to figure out if they can actually get rid of rabies for good. By talking about things again and again, they meet about whether rabies is having troubles being controlled and then they try to stop the disease there. They look at how the disease is spreading, what could be done, and then they might even go out to places where rabies is prevalent. By narrowing down the causes of rabies infiltration, they can then have more meetings, form more subcommittees, and talk even more about how to eradicate the disease.
Creation of Low Cost Rabies Vaccines
Since the rabies vaccine is the best (and only) treatment available for rabies, it seems that having more of this vaccine available would help to increase the cure rate. But since the vaccine is pretty darn expensive, those hospitals and clinics with lower budgets might not be able to keep it on hand. So the poor people tend to die more frequently because of the lack of rabies resources. Current research is trying to create less expensive shots so everyone has a fair shot (pun intended) of being cured.
Improvement of Post Exposure Protocols
Though the current method of treating rabies after being exposed works fine, researchers always need something to do, so they’re currently looking for ways to handle exposure more quickly and more efficiently. La de da. But they got grant money to look at stopping exposure, so they might as well use it for something. Um, wash the wound with a new kind of soap? Maybe that works. Maybe getting treatment even earlier helps? Results have yet to come in.