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Vaccine Update: Rabies Special Edition

14 August 2018

Public Health England (PHE) have issued a Special Rabies Edition of Vaccine Update

This issue supports the recently updated Green Book Rabies Chapter and features:

  • Changes to rabies pre-exposuire prophylaxis
  • Rabies risk from animal bites abroad
  • Administration of rabies immunoglobulin
  • How to manage a patient with a bat bite
  • Immunosupressed patients and rabies prevention
  • Rabies and immunoglobulin service (RigS)*
  • RigS contact details*

Please see Travax Rabies page and individual country pages for indications for Rabies vaccine prior to travel.

*For England.Contact details for Scotland,Northern Ireland and Wales can be found in the Green Book Rabies chapter.