For yall wondering, from what I understand, the immune globulin has a super short shelf life, which means it’s often discarded before use which inflates the price significantly. Further, since so much gets discarded and demand is relatively low, most supplies of the stuff are in more densely populated areas. As I mentioned below, I went to a middle-of-nowhere ER late at night which was a several hours drive away from the nearest available immune globulin which needed to be couriered to my location which also inflated the price tremendously, I’m sure.

And yes, ER is definitely the right call. Rabies is 100% gonna kill you, and the vaccine is 100% gonna save your ass. The sooner you can get to a hospital and get the immune globulin the better. If you can secure and/or dispatch the animal that bit you and have it tested for rabies, that would be ideal but that very often is simply not possible. My understanding is that many major state universities in the U.S. offer rabies testing, but uh, don’t quote me.