Sentences with phrase «more rabid animals»

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Rabies spreads through the saliva of the infected animal, and rabid animals are much more likely to attack because the disease makes them aggressive.

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.

Although wild animals are more likely to be rabid than domestic animals, it is still vital to keep a close eye on your pets when they are outdoors.

Outside cats are even more likely than dogs to encounter rabid wild animals.

People who were known to have had close contact with that shipment were advised to get treatment for rabies exposure, and nearly a dozen more people who were in physical contact with the rabid animals elected to get vaccinated.

I have some encouraging news to share about rabies vaccines, or more specifically, how pets with out - of - date vaccinations that are exposed to a rabid animal should be handled.

It has been co-sponsored by Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the Alliance for Rabies Control (ARC) since 2007.2 And according to the American Veterinary Medical Association, more than half of all rabid domestic animals reported in the U.S. in 2014 were found in 5 U.S. states: Oklahoma, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Virginia.3

In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), cats are more likely to be reported rabid: «Cats are often in close contact with both humans and wild animals, including those that primarily transmit rabies.»