Each year thousands of human rabies exposures occur. Communication and proper education play a critical role in prevention of rabies in people as well as animals.
This 60-minute program from the University at Albany School of Public Health’s “Public Health Live – T2B2” Series, addresses the critical role that health departments and health care workers play in protecting communities against rabies.
This video also discusses the clinical signs of rabies in animals; methods of rabies transmission; rabies pathogenesis; and rabies pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis.
Bryan Cherry, Ph.D., VMD, Deputy State Public Health Veterinarian, New York State Department of Health, Bureau of Communicable Disease Control-Zoonoses Program is the Moderator.
For more information on this series, visit The University at Albany’s School of Public Health website.