The entire deceased animal or head from a rabies suspect animal is required for laboratory confirmation of rabies virus infection. Rabies suspect animals that are involved in human exposure or bite may require euthanasia by a veterinarian.<\/p>\n
Confirmation of rabies requires a positive FA test of the brain and is conducted by the Alabama Department of Public Health Laboratory in Montgomery, Alabama.<\/p>\n
The state diagnostic laboratories facilitate rabies testing by brain removal, packaging and shipping of the brain to the Public Health Laboratory in Montgomery.<\/p>\n
If a delay is anticipated when submitting a euthanized animal for rabies testing, refrigerate or hold the animal body on wet ice in a cooler prior to submission;\u00a0do not freeze.\u00a0Submission of a frozen or decomposed animal may result in an inconclusive rabies FA test.<\/p>\n
A minimum of two to three working days are normally required for specimen collection, delivery and completion of the FA test.<\/p>\n
Contact the\u00a0Auburn laboratory<\/a>\u00a0or a regional laboratory in Elba<\/a>, Hanceville<\/a> or Boaz<\/a> if you have questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The entire deceased animal or head from a rabies suspect animal is required for laboratory confirmation of rabies virus infection. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":2751,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"folder":[],"class_list":["post-2780","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agi.alabama.gov\/animalindustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agi.alabama.gov\/animalindustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agi.alabama.gov\/animalindustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agi.alabama.gov\/animalindustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agi.alabama.gov\/animalindustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/agi.alabama.gov\/animalindustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2781,"href":"https:\/\/agi.alabama.gov\/animalindustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2780\/revisions\/2781"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agi.alabama.gov\/animalindustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agi.alabama.gov\/animalindustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agi.alabama.gov\/animalindustries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/folder?post=2780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}