Fact sheets

The Department of Health, Western Australia, does not produce fact sheets on this topic.

Public Health action

• OD 0234/09 Rabies and Australian Bat Lyssavirus Guidelines - 2009

• Australian Bat Lyssavirus and Rabies in the Australian Immunisation Handbook

• Rabies Confirmed in Bali - Letter to GPs (PDF 22KB)

Notifiable disease data and reports

• Up-to-date Australian bat Lyssavirus and rabies notification data

• General infectious disease reports

Additional sources of information

• Control of Communicable Diseases Manual

Case definition

Only confirmed cases should be notified.

Confirmed case

A confirmed case requires laboratory definitive evidence only.

Laboratory definitive evidence

1. Isolation of rabies virus confirmed by sequence analysis
OR

2. Detection of rabies virus by nucleic acid testing.