Decision tree for potential rabies exposures
Decision tree for potential rabies exposures Rabies Rabies
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Livestock/herbavore
primate, rodent, rabbit
Livestock/herbavore Domestic animal subject to
10-day quarantine in jurisdiction
(usually dog, cat or ferret)

Domestic animal Bat or other wild carnivore,
or high-risk domestic animal
Bat or other

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<End Node 4> Risk assessment in consultation
with public health authority:
- Was exposure provoked?
- What is vaccine status of animal?
- What is epidemiology of area?
- Is animal owned, wild or stray? Risk assessment in consultation
with public health authority:
- Was exposure provoked?
- What is vaccine status of animal?
- What is epidemiology of area?
- Is animal owned, wild or stray?




Available for immediate
postmortem testing? Available for immediate
postmortem testing?
PEP decision made by
provider and patient PEP decision made by
provider and patient PEP decision made by
provider and patient

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No PEP
Wound care
only No PEP
Wound care
only

No PEP PEP and
Wound care PEP and
Wound care
PEP Animal available for quarantine? Animal available for quarantine? Up to 72 hour search for animal Up to 72 hour search for animal Up to 72 No No Yes Yes Postmortem
test for rabies Postmortem
test for rabies
No PEP
Wound care
only No PEP
Wound care
only No PEP
Wound care
only Healthy after 10 day
quarantine Healthy after 10 day
quarantine Healthy Dies or becomes ill
during quarantine Dies or becomes ill
during quarantine
Dies PEP and
Wound care PEP and
Wound care PEP and
Wound care RV (–) RV (–) RV (+) RV (+) Yes Yes No No RV (–) RV (–) RV (+) RV (+)