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Rabies services
What is Rabies?
What to do when?
Disposing
of a dead animal
Licensed
- Registered Trappers
Rabies
Brochures
Rabies Educational Packet
for kids
Rabies:
Just for kids (CDC)
Rabies
Infection and Animals (CDC)
Bats
and Rabies (CDC)
Los
murciélagos y la rabia
(CDC)
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To prevent deaths from rabies, the Health Department
issues health alerts to the public about this invariably fatal disease and its prevention;
offers annual clinics to ensure cat and dog immunizations; facilitates the
testing of suspect animals; and provides immediate
round-the-clock response and follow-up to every potential rabies incident in the County.
In New York
State and Westchester County, law requires
that all cats and dogs receive rabies immunization. The Department
now sponsors rabies pet vaccination clinics to assist in having pets
immunized.
The Department maintains a RABIES
HOTLINE, (914) 813-5010, which residents may
call to hear information about rabies and its prevention.
People most often receive
rabies prophylaxis as a result of suspect bat encounters. Most people
who have died from rabies carried by bats. Current standards require
that if a person has known or suspect contact with a bat, the bat must be
captured for testing or the person will need to receive rabies
shots. Increased education of the public and first responders such
as police has resulted in a greater number of animals being tested each
year, especially bats. This has helped decrease the number of people
receiving rabies prophylaxis.
The Health Department has developed a pamphlet
(Take the Bite Out
,) that provides bite prevention information to the owner of a biting dog, in
the hopes of educating the owner to keep the dog from being a danger to
family, friends and the public.
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View
the new, State Health Department's,
80-second video on the proper
technique for safely capturing
a bat found in one's
home. 
