Immediately wash the wound thoroughly with soap and hot water as
a first aid procedure. For all animal bites, contact your
physician to determine the need for a tetanus shot, receive
proper wound care, and to discuss the risk of rabies exposure.
The LRCA will determine need for quarantine or testing options
for the biting animal. Rabies is transmitted only when the virus
is introduced into bite wounds, open cuts in skin, or onto
mucous membranes from saliva or other potentially infectious
material such as neural tissue. The public and physicians may
use the following link to evaluate if an exposure occurred and
to characterize the risk from a particular species of animal: