It is important that both «indoor» and «outdoor» cats receive vaccinations
as a rabid animal such as a bat could enter your home undetected.»
Not exact matches
The fact is the same
as last time we exchanged post here, your statements are so extremist that they much be challenged and put down like a
rabid animal.
He says the government needs to set up a routine surveillance system for rabies, such
as the one in place now in the U.S. for reporting and sampling suspect
rabid animals.
The»80s arcade classic «Rampage» allowed players to inhabit the avatars of
rabid mutant
animals as they punched helicopters, ate people and demolished cities.
Oregon law requires unvaccinated pets that may have been in contact with
rabid animals (such
as bats) to be quarantined for six months or euthanized.
The Osceola County Health Department has found a
rabid raccoon in the Narcoossee area of Jack Brack Road.The health department will monitor the area for all free - roaming cats and dogs and capture and hold them until they are vaccinated for rabies.Owners of any captured
animals will have to pay fees for vaccination, room and board
as well
as a fine for violating the county's leash law.Residents should be careful about petting an unfamiliar cat or dog in the area and should be wary of any wild
animals that approach them, the Health Department says.
Nine people bitten or scratched by a
rabid cat in a neighborhood southwest of Orlando will begin receiving rabies shots today
as animal control officers continue rounding up
animals to determine if any others have the disease.Orange County health officials said Tuesday there was no cause for alarm yet and did not impose a quarantine or issue a rabies alert.However, an
animal control official said the cat might have spread the disease among stray
animals, which are numerous in the area of 35th and 36th streets east of South Orange Blossom Trail.
This change is a good one because pets in rural Lake County are more exposed to
rabid animals in the wild than their counterparts in more urban counties such
as Orange and Seminole.
But,
as a 1996 article in The American Journal of Public Health points out, the incident was truly extraordinary in its scale: «the previously reported record for treatment resulting from exposures to a single
rabid animal was 70 persons; that treatment cost $ 105,790 and was associated with a
rabid dog in California.»
Oregon law requires all dogs to be vaccinated against rabies
as early
as three months of age; unvaccinated pets that may have been in contact with
rabid animals (such
as bats) must be quarantined for six months or euthanized.
Vaccinated pets act
as a buffer zone between
rabid animals and you.
The contact
animal, such
as a bat, is considered
rabid unless it is tested and is negative.
As a general rule, any
rabid animal that attacks and bites an opossum is going to kill it and possibly eat the opossum.