Rabies Information For Healthcare Professionals
Case Reporting
Licensed healthcare professionals and healthcare agencies are required to report human rabies and animal bites to the Rhode Island Department of Health. Please refer to "Management of Human Exposures to Suspect Rabid Animals."
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- The State of Rhode Island Manual for Rabies Management and Protocols
- Human Rabies Prevention - United States, 1999 Recommendations of the Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (ACIP)
- Human Rabies Prevention, United States, 2008 Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices
- Use of a Reduced (4-Dose) Vaccine Schedule for Postexposure Prophylaxis to Prevent Human Rabies Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, March 2010