Rabies
Reporting Guidelines |
Protocol |
Current Case Definition |
Required Forms
General Information |
Surveillance Data |
Other Links
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Reporting Guidelines
- Within 24 hours to local health department.
Protocol
- Rabies Control Guide
- West Virginia IDEP Active Surveillance PROTOCOL
- Appendix 1 — Information for Workers Performing Brainstem Extraction for Active Rabies Surveillance in Wildlife
- Appendix 2 — Rabies Vaccine: What you need to know.
- Appendix 3 — Human Rabies Prevention: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices
- Appendix 4 — Rabies Vaccination Checklist
- Appendix 5 — Rabeis Test Submission Report
- Appendix 6a — Rabies Anitbody Testing Rapid Fluorescent Focus Inhibition Test (RFFIT) (Atlanta Health Associates)
- Appendix 6b — Rabies Antibody Testing by the RFFIT Method (Kansas State University)
Current Case Definitions
Required Forms
- Animal Bite Report Form
- West Virginia OLS Rabies Test Submission Report
- CDC Possible Human Rabies Patient Information Form
- Rabies Antibody Testing Rapid Fluorescent Focus Inhibition Test (Atlanta Health Associates)
- Rabies Antibody Testing by the RFFIT Method (Kansas State University)
- Rabies Vaccination Checklist
General Information
- Information for Workers Performing Brainstem Extraction for ActiveSurveillance
- Rabies Oral Vaccination Project
- Summary of Post-Expsoure Prophylaxis Treatment for Persons Not Previously Immunized
- Rabies: Protect Yourself! Protect Your Animals! Know the Facts! (PDF, 250kb)
Surveillance Data
Other Links
- National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians Compendium of Animal Rabies Prevention & Control, 2008
- CDC Information: Rabies
- CDC: National Center for Infectious Diseases, Rabies Website
- U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Rabies Management
- Rabies Vaccine: What You Need to Know
- MMWR: Human Rabies Prevention 1999
- West Virginia Rabies Oral Vaccination Project (rabies bait drop)
- San Francisco Department of Public Health: Communicable Disease Control and Prevention Rabies Information
- CDC Guidelines for Vaccinating Pregnant Women
This page was last updated 05/08/2008.
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