Rabies Facts for Travelers

If you are planning to travel to an area that is at high risk for rabies or where medical attention may be hard to find, you will want to consider a preventative vaccine.

Travelers can reduce the risk of infection by avoiding interaction with unfamiliar animals. It is important to know that the disease occurs most commonly in raccoons, skunks, bats and foxes.

If you are bitten or scratched by a questionable animal, you will have be vaccinated unless the animal can be captured and tested for rabies.

Treatment must take place before symptoms appear. Advanced unvaccinated rabies is almost invariably fatal.