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Who writes this site

Faisal Mumtaz

Writer and maintainer of SafeRabies

I am not a doctor, and I am not a veterinarian. I write and maintain SafeRabies from official public-health sources such as CDC and WHO. Page-specific medical review has not been confirmed. Medical review improves educational accuracy but does not make SafeRabies a medical provider or replace care from licensed healthcare professionals.

SafeRabies is educational only. Personal medical decisions belong to licensed healthcare professionals or public-health authorities.

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:

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.

I am not a doctor or veterinarian. I write and maintain SafeRabies from official public-health sources such as CDC and WHO. Page-specific medical review has not been confirmed. Medical review improves educational accuracy but does not make SafeRabies a medical provider.

  1. World Health Organization (WHO) rabies guidance
  2. CDC rabies prevention and control guidelines
  3. State and local public health department regulations
  4. Peer-reviewed medical literature

When sources conflict, I follow WHO guidance first, then CDC guidance, then regional regulations.

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.

If you think you have been exposed

Contact a clinician or your nearest emergency department now. Do not wait, and do not rely on this site alone.

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