130A-197. Management of dogs, cats, and ferrets exposed to rabies.
When the local health director reasonably suspects that an animal required to be vaccinated under this Part has been exposed to the saliva or nervous tissue of a proven rabid animal or animal reasonably suspected of having rabies that is not available for laboratory diagnosis, the animal shall be considered to have been exposed to rabies. The recommendations and guidelines for rabies post-exposure management specified by the National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians in the most current edition of the Compendium of Animal Rabies Prevention and Control shall be the required control measures. (1935, c. 122, s. 14; 1953, c. 876, s. 10; 1983, c. 891, s. 2; 2000-163, s. 4; 2009-327, s. 12; 2017-106, s. 1.)
Structure North Carolina General Statutes
North Carolina General Statutes
Article 6 - Communicable Diseases.
§ 130A-134 - Reportable diseases and conditions.
§ 130A-135 - Physicians to report.
§ 130A-136 - School principals and child care operators to report.
§ 130A-137 - Medical facilities may report.
§ 130A-138 - Operators of restaurants and other food or drink establishments to report.
§ 130A-139 - Persons in charge of laboratories to report.
§ 130A-140 - Local health directors to report.
§ 130A-141 - Form, content and timing of reports.
§ 130A-141.1 - Temporary order to report.
§ 130A-142 - Immunity of persons who report.
§ 130A-143 - Confidentiality of records.
§ 130A-144 - Investigation and control measures.
§ 130A-145 - Quarantine and isolation authority.
§ 130A-146 - Transportation of bodies of persons who have died of reportable diseases.
§ 130A-147 - Rules of the Commission.
§ 130A-148 - Laboratory tests for AIDS virus infection.
§ 130A-149 - Recodified as G.S130A-479 by Session Laws 2002-179, s2, effective October 1, 2002.
§ 130A-150 - Statewide surveillance and reporting system.
§ 130A-152 - Immunization required.
§ 130A-154 - Certificate of immunization.
§ 130A-155.1 - Submission of certificate to college or universities.
§ 130A-156 - Medical exemption.
§ 130A-157 - Religious exemption.
§ 130A-158 - Restitution required when vaccine spoiled due to provider negligence.
§ 130A-158.5 - Access to North Carolina Immunization Registry.
§ 130A-185 - Vaccination required.
§ 130A-186 - Appointment and certification of certified rabies vaccinator.
§ 130A-187 - County rabies vaccination clinics.
§ 130A-189 - Rabies vaccination certificates.
§ 130A-190 - Rabies vaccination tags.
§ 130A-191 - Possession and distribution of rabies vaccine.
§ 130A-192 - Animals not wearing required rabies vaccination tags.
§ 130A-193 - Vaccination and confinement of animals brought into this State.
§ 130A-194 - Quarantine of districts infected with rabies.
§ 130A-195 - Destroying stray or feral animals in quarantine districts.
§ 130A-196 - Notice and confinement of biting animals.
§ 130A-197 - Management of dogs, cats, and ferrets exposed to rabies.
§ 130A-199 - Rabid animals to be destroyed; heads to be sent to State Laboratory of Public Health.