▸ Officials at the CDC anticipate that the rabies vaccine supply will be fully restored in mid-2009, when Sanofi Pasteur's manufacturing facility in France is expected to be reopened. It was the scheduled closing of that facility in June 2007—combined with Novartis' inability to meet the remaining market demand—that resulted in the current supply problems. Hopefully, if we continue to practice judicious use of the vaccine even after the supply is restored, we can prevent a similar situation from reoccurring.
By the way, those of you practicing in Hawaii don't need to worry. Yours is the only U.S. state that has never had a documented case of rabies.