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
• LinkedIn

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 almost entirely preventable if treatment starts in time. 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.

Nobody clinically reviews this content. I do not employ clinicians, and I am not going to imply otherwise. The accuracy check here is the sourcing: if a claim cannot be traced to a primary source, it does not belong on the page. My source priority is:

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If something on this site is wrong or out of date, I would rather hear it from you than not.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.