Information for Healthcare Providers and Public Health Professionals

Public Health resources:

• Human rabies immune globulin and rabies vaccine administration: A one page flyer on recommended anatomic sites for rabies postexposure prophylaxis (PDF)
  
  
• Health Advisory (12/1/06): Rabies Post-Exposure Prophylaxis for Raccoon and Other Wild Terrestrial Carnivore Bites
  
  
• Animal Bites: Information for Health Care Providers (fact sheet)
  
  
• Clinical Assessment and Management of Potential Rabies Exposures in King County
  Includes resources, decision trees, and instructions for responding to potential rabies exposures in King County
  
  
• Information for Health Care Providers: Rabies Exposure Assessment and Rabies Vaccine (Q&A Fact Sheet)
  

External resources:

• Information about rabies and updates on the rabies vaccine situation from CDC
  
  
• Rabies Prevention - 2008 Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices
  
  
• Twelve Common Questions about Human Rabies and Its Prevention (PDF)
  
  
• Rabies Prevention in Washington State: A Guide for Practitioners
  Information on the clinical features, epidemiology, laboratory testing of animals, and prevention of rabies

Fact sheets for the general public

• Rabies Fact Sheet
• Bat and Rabies Fact Sheet
• Rabies Vaccine Fact Sheet
• Immune Globulin Fact Sheet

Other web resources