Originally Posted by
travelmad478
FYI, "prophylaxis" means prevention of a disease before you get it (e.g. vaccines and drugs as malarone, taken to prevent malaria). What you are referring to is rabies treatment, which is indeed much more unpleasant than the vaccine/prophylaxis.
Except rabies "treatment" is really a form of prophylaxis. They're trying to boost your body's ability to fight the possible rabies, not fight it directly.