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What to Do if You Have a Potential Rabies Exposure
Centers for Disease Control — Rabies is a medical urgency not an emergency, but decisions must not be delayed. Any wounds should be immediately washed and medical attention from a health care professional should be sought for any trauma due to an animal attack before ...More…
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Questions and Answers about Rabies, Bats and Summer Camps
Centers for Disease Control — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been collaborating with two summer camps and state and local health departments in multiple states to investigate reports of the presence of bats at the summer camps and assess the ...More…
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Chapter 4 - Rabies - Yellow Book / CDC Travelers' Health
Centers for Disease Control — Rabies is an acute, progressive, fatal encephalomyelitis caused by neurotropic viruses in the family Rhabdoviridae, genus Lyssavirus (1,2). The disease is almost always transmitted by an animal bite that inoculates the virus into wounds. Very ...More…
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What is rabies and how do people get it?
Centers for Disease Control — Safety and risk management for exposures to bats in a camp setting. Rabies is an infectious viral disease that affects the nervous system of humans and other mammals. People get rabies from the bite of an animal with rabies (a rabid animal). Any ...More…
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Animals that can transmit the rabies virus
Mayo Clinic — Rabies - Comprehensive overview covers symptoms and treatment of this serious infection. Rabies is a deadly virus spread to people from the saliva of infected animals. The rabies virus is usually transmitted through a bite. Animals most likely to ...More…
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General Questions & Answers About Rabies
Centers for Disease Control — What happens if my pet (cat, dog, ferret) is bitten by a wild animal? I am moving to a rabies-free country and want to take my pets with me. Where can I get more information? What if I cannot get rabies vaccine on the day I am supposed to get my ...More…
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Home / CDC Rabies Just 4 Kids
Centers for Disease Control — CDC's Rabies Web Page That's Just for Kids! Viral and Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch (VRZB) Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases (DVRD) National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) US ...More…
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Statistics / CDC Rabies Just 4 Kids
Centers for Disease Control — In the United States in 2001, there were 7,437 cases of rabies reported in animals. Most were in wild animals. One case was reported in a human. Rabies occurs in almost every state. Hawaii is the only state that has not had a single native case ...More…
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Rabies Infection and Animals
Centers for Disease Control — Rabies is a disease caused by the rabies virus. It may take several weeks or even a few years for people to show symptoms after getting infected with rabies, but usually people start to show signs of the disease 1 to 3 months after the virus ...More…
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About Rabies
Kids Health — Rabies is a serious infection of the nervous system that is caused by a virus. Rabies is usually transmitted by a bite from an infected animal. Rabies infections in people are rare in the United States. However, worldwide about 50,000 people die ...More…
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Why is there an interruption in supply?
Centers for Disease Control — By current ACIP recommendations, pre-exposure vaccination should be considered for persons whose activities bring them into frequent contact with rabies virus or potentially rabid animals, such as veterinarians and their staff, animal handlers, ...More…