They don't do them in the stomach anymore:

If a doctor decides that you probably have been exposed to rabies, post-exposure (after a being bitten) rabies shots should begin at once, preferably within 24 to 48 hours of exposure. In fact, many experts recommend that treatment should be started even if the delay is much longer than that.

The first treatment, sometimes called passive immunization, provides immediate but temporary protection by injecting antibodies (disease-fighting proteins or immunoglobulins) into the patient. Currently, CDC recommends treating a patient immediately with one dose of human rabies immunoglobulin (HRIG) shots.

After the first treatment, CDC recommends that patients be given a rabies shot, which starts the body producing its own antibodies. It takes some time for the body to produce the antibodies, but these antibodies provide longer-lasting protection. Because rabies has an unusually long incubation period, however, the body has time to respond to the vaccine and produce protective antibodies.

There are now three types of rabies vaccines, all of which are made from killed rabies virus:
Human diploid cell vaccine (HDCV),
Rabies vaccine adsorbed (RVA), and
Purified chick embryo cell culture (PCEC).
After possible exposure to the rabies virus, the doctor will give you five shots with one of these vaccines into your upper arm muscle over a four-week period. The vaccines can cause mild reactions such as swelling or redness at the vaccine site, headache, fever, nausea, muscle aches, and dizziness.

http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/r/rabies/treatments.htm

Still, I'd rather not have to go that route!


>>>Before being sent to Turkey I was given a battery of shots, including three rabies shot in the stomach. I asked if this meant if I got bit I'd be okay and they said no, this will just increase your chances of staying alive until you can get to Ankara so we can give you the full 18.
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>>For a while we had a couple hedgehogs as pets. The hedgehog is a scary animal, you just point a finger and it gets so scared it rolls into a ball. Now my daughters found ways to play with them like with kittens, and one of them got bitten twice in three days, same hedgehog, same finger.
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>>We took her to the epidemiology (where the doc was the husband of my wife's once roommate) and they gave her the shots just in case - there would be an occasional rabid animal wandering over the border once every few years, and even that was forty miles away.
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>And, given the needle in the belly talk, how were the jabs administered?
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>>Few days later we walk by a house where they kept a big dog behind the fence. He started barking very loudly and very close, really startled us, and she said "you can't do a thing to me, I'm vaccinated now!". She was about six at the time.