Faisal Mumtaz

Background

I am a software developer and a Computer Science lecturer at COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus. My work is in software and teaching — that is the whole of my expertise, and none of it is clinical.

You should not take my word for who I am. These are the places you can check:

• COMSATS University Lahore — faculty profile (Lecturer, Department of Computer Science)
• GitHub — @faisalakb

Why I built SafeRabies

If you have just been bitten or scratched, the information you need already exists. The CDC and the WHO both publish detailed rabies guidance, and it is authoritative. It is also written for clinicians and public health officials, spread across long documents, and hard to use when you are frightened, in a hurry, and trying to work out whether the animal that just bit you is a problem.

Rabies is very close to always fatal once symptoms begin, and it is preventable when appropriate post-exposure care begins before symptoms. Delay is where the damage happens. SafeRabies exists to get you from “I was just bitten” to “here is what to do in the next hour” without reading a forty-page PDF first.

How I write the content

Written from current CDC and WHO rabies guidance. Every clinical claim links to the source it came from, so you can check it yourself rather than taking my word for it. Where state or local law is involved, I cite the relevant state health department or statute.

Authorship and medical review are separate roles. Medical review applies only to the exact article revision and scope recorded in its confirmed review. It does not establish review of other content on SafeRabies. Static pages, tools, legal pages and other content must not be assumed medically reviewed unless the page itself displays confirmed review information based on its own page-specific approval record.

• World Health Organization (WHO) rabies guidance
• CDC rabies prevention and control guidelines
• Applicable statutes, regulations, binding orders and public-health agency guidance
• Peer-reviewed medical literature

We select sources by jurisdiction, topic, currency and applicability to the population and setting. We check publication or update dates, effective dates for legal requirements, and whether a source has been superseded. The source list is not a universal ranking.

For legal requirements, we cite applicable primary legal authorities: statutes, regulations and binding orders in the relevant jurisdiction. Agency explanations provide context but do not replace the governing legal text. WHO or CDC guidance does not override binding local law.

For US clinical information, we use applicable CDC guidance and ACIP recommendations, with relevant state or local public-health guidance. For international or other clinical contexts, we use WHO guidance alongside applicable national guidance, identifying differences in populations, settings and available interventions rather than treating the recommendations as interchangeable.

If a material difference remains unresolved, we describe the uncertainty and withhold a definitive recommendation pending review by an appropriately qualified clinician or public-health professional, veterinarian, or legal professional for the topic. We record the sources and scope of the disagreement. This review requirement is not a claim that review has occurred; completed review is identified only with documented approval of the relevant revision.

Reaching me

If something on this site is wrong or out of date, I would rather hear it from you than not. Corrections go to editorial@saferabies.com, and anything else to contact@saferabies.com.