Shots Mired: Rabies Vaccine Hard to Get in D.C., U.S

The dog standing about eye-level to an elementary school-age child appeared to be leashed as it sipped water on a sidewalk in Dupont Circle. Corrine Johnson quickly learned the dog was only next to the leash, not attached to it.

In one second she saw the dog in the corner of her eye and in the next it had planted its teeth into her right thigh, she says of the July 14 incident.

"I wasn’t even very close to it when I walked by…which was a concern," Johnson says. "Usually a dog if they’re scared or you try to pet it might react like that. But that wasn’t what happened."

Blood immediately formed at the puncture point, and teeth marks stood out on her saliva-covered skin.

Possibly worse than the bite itself was the hassle Johnson endured over several months as she attempted to get rabies shots.

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