Trauma and Pregnancy Therapeutic Management: Open Wounds: Animal or Snake bites management:

Animal bites produce a form of puncture wound, so if the rabies immunization status of the dog is known, the wound is washed and treated as a puncture wound. If the dog cannot be located or is proved to be rabid after 48 hours of observation, a woman must be administered rabies immune globulin and vaccine. Pregnancy is not a contraindication to rabies immunization because contracting the disease would be fatal. The same is true of anti-venom serum for snake bites (Olson, 2009).