- Do not touch any sick, paralysed animals, or better still: simply never touch animals in the wild.
- Kill stray dogs (sometimes problematical in Buddhist countries).
- Vaccinate dogs (pets).
- Vaccination of wild animals: for example in Switzerland and Germany foxes are vaccinated with oral live vaccine incorporated in fishmeal pellets or other bait. Vampire bats can be vaccinated by catching some and applying the live vaccine to the skin. The animals often lick one another and it would be possible in this way to vaccinate a colony of animals. The vaccine could also be applied to cattle. Vampires can be controlled by applying coumarins [rat poison] to their skin and then releasing them again.
- Persons in high-risk occupations (e.g. veterinarians, certain laboratory personnel, medical personnel in the infectious diseases departments of hospitals) should be vaccinated. The antibody titre is determined every 2 years to ascertain whether a booster injection is necessary.
