Responding to Animal Bites and Preventing Rabies in Allegheny County
Contributed by: Leah Pope, MPH – Allegheny County Health Department Each year, around two thousand people in Allegheny County are bitten by an animal, with more bites occurring during the summer months. While rabies infections in humans are rare, they are a serious public health concern. Before 1960, hundreds of people in the U.S. died […]