Rabies Resources in Alaska

• Alaska Rabies Control Manual (last updated June 2011)
  
  • Manual with Appendices D, F, G, and H  287 KB
  • Appendix A: Section of Epidemiology Rabies Post-Exposure Treatment Sheet  36 KB
  • Appendix B: 2007 Epidemiology Bulletin on Lay Vaccinator Program  107 KB
  • Appendix C: Alaska State Virology Laboratory (ASVL), Rabies specimen submission information

  Specimens will be accepted from physicians and other healthcare providers, veterinarians, environmental health officers, wildlife agents, law officers, or other individuals designated by the Alaska Division of Public Health. Rabies laboratory examinations will be limited to warm-blood animals for which there is a clear or possible history of human exposure, or animals deemed necessary by public health or wildlife authorities. Please contact the Section of Epidemiology for authorization prior to submitting specimens for rabies testing. Call (907) 269-8000, or after hours call (800) 478-0084.

  Note: for wildlife samples, state regulations designate that game species killed in "defense of life or property" (DLP) must be reported to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G). This requirement is separate from the form needed to request rabies testing at ASVL.

  • ADF&G DLP report form
  • Appendix E: NASPHV Compendium on Rabies Prevention and Control  103 KB
• Epidemiology Bulletins about rabies
• Video clip of a dog later confirmed to have rabies, courtesy Troy Ritter, ANTHC, 2003
• Map of rabies activity in Alaska
  • Regions of Alaska enzootic (always present at a certain level) for fox rabies
• Alaska Department of Fish and Game
  • Wildlife Parasites and Diseases: Rabies

  The ADF&G, Division of Wildlife Conservation, intends to obtain all intact fox carcasses that are in a suitable condition for wildlife disease surveillance and research purposes. For wildlife that are not submitted to ASVL, ADF&G requests that persons send an email to dfg.dwc.vet@alaska.gov when an intact (fresh, fresh/frozen and not scavenged) red or arctic fox has been killed purposefully or accidently as a DLP, nuisance, or resulting from a vehicular accident. ADF&G staff will arrange for transfer/shipping if appropriate. Please contact ADF&G by email at dfg.dwc.vet@alaska.gov with any questions you may have about submitting a carcass for these purposes.

General Rabies Resources

• U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  • Main rabies webpage
  • Travelers information
• World Health Organization (WHO)
  • Rabies information
• American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA)
  • Rabies brochure  479 KB