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Additional Bat Rabies Resources

Additional Bat Rabies Education Resources

Podcasts:

• Rabies: What should you do if you're exposed?

Credit:  Robert Herriman interviewing Peter Costa, Outbreak News Today (1/17/18)

Coloring Books:

• Rabies Coloring Book (English) (Spanish)

Credit:  Dr. Maria Correa, North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine

Videos:

• Bats and Rabies at Schools 

      (English) (Espanol) 

        Credit: Arizona Department of Health Services

• Bats at Schools - Prevention of Rabies

                    Credit:  USDA APHIS (YouTube)

• Bats and Rabies 

        Credit: Global Alliance for Rabies Control

• Changing the Narrative on Bats and Rabies

                     Credit: USDA Wildlife Research Center and OHC Bat Rabies Education Team

• Protect People, Protect Bats, Avoid Rabies

       Credit: Idaho Department of Fish and Game, Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, Bat  World Sanctuary,  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Ravenswood Media

• Why We Need to Change How We Combat Rabies

​​​​​​​         Credit: Nat Geo Live

Power Point Presentations:

• Bat Rabies

Credit: Lexi Peterman for Poe Health Center Camps in North Carolina, USA 

Fact Sheets:

• Reported cases of rabies in bats in the U.S., by county, 2015

Credit:  U.S. CDC

• Infographic: Rabies in the US 2014

Credit: American Veterinary Medical Association

Publications and Guidance Documents:

• List of State Public Health Veterinarians by State, March 1, 2018
• List of all State Public Health Departments
• Compendium of Animal Rabies Prevention and Control, 2016
• Rabies Surveillance in the United States (2013) (2014) (2015) (2016) (2017) (2020) (2022)
• Maps: Rabid Bats Reported in the United States (2013) (2014) (2015)   

• CDC Reports Increase in Human Rabies Cases Linked to Bats in the U.S., January 6, 2022

• Ma X, Boutelle C, et.al., Rabies surveillance in the United States during 2022. J Am Vet Med Assoc. 2024 Jul 26;262(11):1518-1525. doi: 10.2460/javma.24.05.0354.

• Fenton B, Faure PA, Bat bites and rabies: the Canadian scene, FACETS 5(1):367-380, June, 2020, DOI:10.1139/facets-2019-0066

• Firpo S, Piccirilli MG, Urizar R, Vitta N, Hirmas Riade SM, Leguizamón C, Vico ML, Martínez G, Beltrán FJ, Cisterna DM. Human Rabies by Secondary Transmission in Argentina, 2021. Diseases. 2022; 10(1):17. https://doi.org/10.3390/diseases10010017

• Hennenfent, AK, Iyengar, P, Davies-Cole J (2018), Assessing rabies knowledge gaps in human and animal healthcare professionals practicing in Washington, DC- A one health approach. Zoonoses Public Health. 2018 Dec;65(8):947-956. doi: 10.1111/zph.12514. Epub 2018 Aug 11.

• Hsu CH, Brown CM, Murphy JM, Haskell MG, Williams C, Feldman K, Mitchell K, Blanton JD, Petersen BW, Wallace RM, (2016), Perceptions and Practices of Mass Bat Exposure Events in the Setting of Rabies Among U.S. Public Health Agencies. Zoonoses Public Health. doi:10.1111/zph.12289

• Escobar LE, Peterson AT, Favi M, Yung V, Medina-Vogel G. Bat-borne rabies in Latin America. Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo. 2015 Jan-Feb;57(1):63-72. doi: 10.1590/S0036-46652015000100009.

• Kuzmin IV, Bozick B, Guagliardo SA, Kunkel R, Shak JR, Tong S, Rupprecht CE (2011). Bats, emerging infectious diseases, and the rabies paradigm revisited. Emergency Health Threats Journal 2011, 4: 7159 - DOI: 10.3402/ehtj.v4i0.7159

• Lu H, McComas KA, Buttke DE, Roh S, Wild MA (2016) A One Health Message about Bats Increases Intentions to Follow Public Health Guidance on Bat Rabies. PLoS ONE 11(5): e0156205. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156205

• Lu H, McComas KA, Buttke DE, Roh S, Wild MA, Decker DJ, (2017) One Health messaging about bats and rabies: how framing of risks, benefits and attributions can support public health and wildlife conservation goals. Wildlife Research. 44(3): 200-206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/WR16061 

• WHO Expert Consultation on Rabies. Second Report. (2013) World Health Organization technical report series; no. 982. 150pp.    https://goo.gl/X84MBP

Other Helpful Organizations and Websites:

• American Veterinary Medical Association– Rabies information webpage
• Bat Conservation International
• Bat World Sanctuary - Facts about Bats and Rabies
• The Bat Conservation Trust: Bats and disease in the UK
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention– Rabies Webpage
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Learning about Bats and Rabies webpage
• Global Alliance for Rabies Control
• Get Batty for Bats in National Parks
• National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians
• New South Wales Government Information: Rabies and Australian bat lyssavirus infection fact sheet
• Pan American Health Organization (en espanol)
• U.S. National Park Service:
  • Bats Factsheet
  • Bats and People
  • Bats, Rabies, and People
  • Bats, Rabies and You
  • Biological Resources - Rabies
• University of Glasgow: One Health - Vampire bat rabies in Latin America
• World Rabies Day

If you or your organization have more Bat Rabies Education materials that would be useful to the public please let BRET know    batrabies@onehealthcommission.org