All Topics Environment and Public Health/Safety Public Health Communicable Disease Control Disease Specific Communicable Disease Control Rabies Control

Programs that attempt to control the occurrence of rabies by monitoring the incidence of the disease in bats, coyotes, skunks and other wild animal populations that are susceptible; locating and isolating animals who are suspected of having rabies; and locating and treating people who have been bitten by an animal who may have been rabid.