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Preventing rabies deaths and reducing the global economic burden of the virus will require both developing a monoclonal antibody cocktail to replace human serum in treatment and improving rabies vaccines to elicit long-lasting protection. Here, we solve nine cryo-EM structures of neutralizing monoclonal antibodies in complex with the rabies virus surface glycoprotein (RABV-G). The nine structures span three known antigenic sites plus two new antigenic sites, not previously mapped. We further find that these two new sites are the targets of antibodies with the desired broad neutralization of rabies as well as other emerging lyssaviruses. Across the mAb panel, fusion inhibition and binding affinity correlate best with neutralization. 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