Post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) is any preventive medical treatment started immediately after exposure to a pathogen (such as a disease-causing virus), in order to prevent infection by the pathogen and the development of disease. ==Rabies== PEP is commonly and very effectively used to prevent the outbreak of rabies after a bite by a rabid animal. ...
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Post-exposure prophylaxis: A treatment administered following exposure to a harmful agent which attempts to block or reduce injury or infection. Prophylaxis means a defense or protection. Post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), for example, might concern the treatment of a health care worker exposed by a needle stick to HIV with a drug such as AZT to prot...
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Providing immunoglobulin (or sometimes vaccine) to a person who has been exposed to an infectious agent, in an effort to prevent them developing the disease
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