Has anyone here ever been treated for post rabies exposure?

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57. Originally this was a good thing

historically there was no or very limited preventative coverage.

So covering it as a preventative service would have meant no coverage -- instead it was considered a coverage of a disease process and given the same coverage as a heart attack, etc.

Now -- there's a separate public health issue specifically dealing with communicable diseases. Up until relatively recently, the state health departments would cover something like this as a public health threat -- but that would only be covered under their specific protocols and often only if administered by them or a select group of contracted persons. If you wanted to go to a private physician or hospital the health department didn't cover the service.

In today's world the health departments (at least in my part of the world) are often limited to tracking disease and rarely get involved with treatment or direct intervention -- they no longer have the cache they did for funding purposes when they were fighting small pox, polio, and endemic tuberculosis, and are often subject to political infighting when they try to fight things like HIV, STD's, etc.