Rabies Prevention in Washington State: A Guide for Practitioners
Introduction | Clinical features | Epidemiology | Evaluating encounters | Laboratory testing | Prevention

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This monograph was originally produced in the spring of 1998.
Written by: David Blythe (UW Preventive Medicine Residency/Washington State DOH); Marcia Goldoft; John Grendon; John Kobayashi; and Phyllis Shoemaker (Washington State DOH).
Designed and produced for the World Wide Web by Phillip Dunham (NWCPHP).

Acknowledgements: We would like to thank: Paul Stehr-Green, Donna Osmond, Beth Wieman, Steve LaCroix, Steve McInelly, Pat DeHart, Don Martin and Mary Deraitus (Washington State DOH) and Lody Caldwell (Kittitas County Health Department) for their review and helpful comments; and James Wharton, Steven Frantz, Henry Feder, Jose Antonio Martinez, and Colleen Weum for help with graphics.

Introduction | Clinical features | Epidemiology | Evaluating encounters | Laboratory testing | Prevention