Sentences with phrase «rabies vector»

The Division will continue to handle rabies surveillance for Palm Beach County, which includes quarantine, testing, and response to rabies vector species and human or animal exposure.

As cats are not the host species for any rabies strain, they are not a primary rabies vector.

The animals are given a physical exam, vaccinated, dewormed, and checked for open wounds, which may have been inflicted by a potential rabies vector.

Volunteers will not be working with any prevalent rabies vector species.

We accept a limited number of Rabies Vector Species including raccoons, groundhogs, foxes, skunk, and bats.

As a rabies vector species, domestic cats pose a threat to human health that can be addressed by responsible pet ownership.

According to previous research by Galetti's group, feral pigs and cross-bred pig - boars are a public health hazard because they have become a major source of food for vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) and have thereby fueled an increase in this rabies vector.

ABC, CDC, and TWS «While cats make up a small percentage of rabies vectors,» argues Holmer, «they are responsible for a disproportionate number of human exposures.»

«While cats make up a small percentage of rabies vectors, they are responsible for a disproportionate number of human exposures,» said Holmer.

Not exact matches

And then I gave Adam syphillis, cholera, typhus, leprosy, rabies, malaria, and tuberculosis all simultaneously, because I'm a real ass... and I needed a human vector for some of these historic diseases.

«The ECDOH Rabies, Disease and Vector Control program is actively putting boots on the ground to hand bait areas throughout Erie County in the next few days» said Dr. Gale R. Burstein, Erie County Commissioner of Health.

In addition, the ECDOH Division of Environmental Health will have staff from their Rabies, Disease and Vector Control Program distributing baits via vehicles and on foot.

«The ECDOH Rabies, Disease and Vector Control program will be actively putting boots on the ground to hand bait areas throughout Erie County,» said Dr. Gale R. Burstein, Erie County Commissioner of Health.

They dig up the disease's deep cultural roots, as well, exploring how it influenced the modern myth of the vampire and shaped our relationship with dogs, frequent vectors of the rabies virus.

In mice, this vector induced after a single dose complete protection to rabies virus challenge.

In developing nations, rabies kills tens of thousands of people; dogs are the vector in over 98 percent of cases.

Terrestrial carnivores most often infected with rabies (known as vector species) in the US are skunks, raccoons, and foxes.

p. 34» The vaccination protocol that includes the minimum number of vaccines yet still provides a reasonable opportunity to immunize the dog would be: a single dose of combined infectious (attenuated, avirulent, modified live, recombinant viral vectored) CDV, MLV CPV - 2, with MLV CAV - 2, administered at 16 wk of age or older, plus a rabies shot at the same time (but inoculated at a separate site on the body).

In our neighborhood, Queens and in New York City in general, the main vectors for transmission of Rabies are raccoons and bats.

An estimated 200 dogs per square kilometer occupy Bangkok, fouling sidewalks and streets, causing traffic accidents and serving as vectors for rabies and other diseases.12 A nip on the ankle by a stray dog in any of these developing countries quickly jolts Western tourists into the life and death reality of the situation.13

Massachusetts in particular is a magnet and a distribution center for relocated surplus pets and strays... Some diseases and parasites pose serious health risks for human health as well as for dogs and other species... Dogs are a leading vector for rabies in many poor countries... Given the incubation period for rabies, from five days to several years, with 20 - 60 days being the norm, unquarantined importation of street dogs from poor countries with low rates of vaccination for rabies, is a disaster waiting to happen...»