Sentences with phrase «raccoon rabies»

«Chipman said the vaccine, called ONRAB, has helped eliminate raccoon rabies in the Canadian province of Quebec.

In December 2015, rabies vaccine baiting took place in response to the positive raccoon rabies cases in the Hamilton area.

I helped to field - test and validate neuter / return in 1991 - 1992 as an effective means of humanely eradicating feral colonies with minimal ecological impact, and as an effective approach to rabies control in the path of the mid-Atlantic raccoon rabies pandemic of 1976 - 1993.

«As coordinator of a rabies information hotline for the preceding year, following the arrival in Connecticut of the mid-Atlantic raccoon rabies pandemic, I became one of the three coordinators of an experiment which sterilized and vaccinated 330 feral cats at eight locations in northern Fairfield County, Connecticut.»

And a promising new vaccine, typically distributed in packets dropped from airplanes, may eliminate raccoon rabies altogether.

Since 1992, when raccoon rabies first appeared in New York City, there have been 13 cats that have tested positive for rabies, eleven of which were strays.

Researches closer to eliminating raccoon rabies.

Jenkins, S.R. and Winkler, W.G., «Descriptive Epidemiology from an Epizootic of Raccoon Rabies in the Middle Atlantic States, 1982 — 1983.»

Recalling one of his early - 1990s TNR projects, Merritt Clifton, editor of Animal People, says it «proved the efficacy... to keep raccoon rabies from spreading among feral cats at eight sites in Connecticut.»

I've been unable to locate any national figures for PEP from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the examples the authors cite (shown in orange on the map below, adapted from [7]-RRB- nearly all come from the mid-Atlantic and Southeast, where reports of raccoon rabies have risen sharply since the mid-1970s and «the importation of rabid raccoons from Florida by hunters.»

First approved in 1995 to prevent raccoon rabies, it is used worldwide to protect wild animals and, indirectly, neighboring human populations.

Not exact matches

In blaming the sportsmen for transporting infected raccoons and causing the Mid-Atlantic rabies epidemic, the COTW insinuated that hunting and trapping caused the epidemic.

An Oneida County youth and several family pets are undergoing post exposure treatment for rabies after being attacked by a raccoon and a grey fox in separate incidents earlier this week, Health Department officials... Read more

It is part of the county's program to fight the spread of rabies by targeting raccoons.

The deceased raccoon was sent for rabies testing.

The mid-Atlantic Raccoon Epizootic strain of rabies is widespread throughout Oneida County and last year accounted for more than 80 area residents having to undergo Post Exposure Treatment and a number of unvaccinated household pets to be quarantined or euthanized.

Rabies Awareness Should Be Year - Round In the town of Boonville, a raccoon was positive for rRabies Awareness Should Be Year - Round In the town of Boonville, a raccoon was positive for rabiesrabies.

Rabies Awareness Should Be Year - Round On November 13, 2014, a raccoon was sighted in a pasture in the Town of Vernon with several cows.

Boy, Family Pets Involved in Rabid Animal Attacks «Raccoon and Grey Fox Responsible for Separate Incidents» An Oneida County youth and several family pets are undergoing post exposure treatment for rabies after being attacked by a raccoon and a grey fox in separate incidents earlier this week, Health Department officiaRaccoon and Grey Fox Responsible for Separate Incidents» An Oneida County youth and several family pets are undergoing post exposure treatment for rabies after being attacked by a raccoon and a grey fox in separate incidents earlier this week, Health Department officiaraccoon and a grey fox in separate incidents earlier this week, Health Department officials say.

In 2013, 35 animals tested positive for rabies in Erie County, including seventeen bats, nine raccoons, seven skunks, and two foxes.

In 2014 to date, four animals have been found positive for rabies, including two bats, one raccoon, and one skunk.

The cat was bitten before the woman was able to shoot and kill the raccoon, which later tested positive for rabies.

To date in 2014, thirteen animals have tested positive for rabies in Erie County (five raccoons, five bats, and one each of a cat, skunk and fox).

The new oral rabies vaccine should prove more effective than prior versions, which may lead to a drop in rabies in our raccoon populations.

«This distribution of vaccine - laden baits by airplane and helicopter throughout Western New York is part of an aggressive action to halt the spread of rabies in wildlife, particularly raccoons,» said Peter Tripi, Senior Public Health Sanitarian.

To date in 2014, 16 animals from Erie County tested positive for rabies, predominantly bats and raccoons but other animals such as skunks and fox also.

Erie County, NY Department of Health» Two Residents Bitten by Rabid Bat & Raccoon in Past Week — Warmer Weather Increases Rabies Risk from Wild Animals

To date in 2015, 16 animals from Erie County tested positive for rabies, predominantly bats and raccoons.

Two Residents Bitten by Rabid Bat & Raccoon in Past Week; Warmer Weather Increase Rabies Risk from Wild Animals (06/13/2004)

Rabies isn't a disease we think about much — unless you have an encounter with an erratic raccoon.

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

Raccoons are associated with infecting pets with Rabies disease.

We worry that our cats will catch a rabies - infected bat or our dogs will get in a scrap with an infected raccoon.

The primary way the rabies virus is transmitted to cats in the United States is through a bite from a disease carrier: foxes, raccoons, skunks, and bats.

Nationwide rabies commonly occurs in bats, skunks, fox, coyotes, raccoons, and a wide variety of other wildlife species.

Live virus rabies vaccinations that were made for dogs and cats have actually caused rabies when administered to skunks and raccoons.

The bull mastiff and lab - chow mix dogs, who had not been vaccinated for rabies, killed the raccoons.

The raccoons were tested by the Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene and were found to be «equivocal» for rabies.

Raccoons can harbor rabies for two years.

ALTAMONTE SPRINGS — RACCOONS HAD DISTEMPER, NOT RABIES.

Lab tests on the raccoons, which can harbor rabies for two years, have not been completed.

Horses can be exposed to rabies through the bite of infected animals, commonly bats, raccoons, foxes and skunks.

Several variant strains of rabies exist in North America, including strains found in skunks, raccoons, foxes and bats.

«Skunks and raccoons are major sources of rabies, and most cats who are faced with a challenge by a skunk or raccoon will run away, whereas a dog is more likely to attack,» she says.

Trapped cats will be defenseless against predators such as dogs, people, raccoons and skunks (which are rabies carriers and are attracted to the bait in the trap).

In the U.S., wildlife species such as raccoons, skunks, foxes, mongooses, and bats are endemically infected with rabies and serve as a continuous reservoir of infection for domestic species and people.

On national monitoring surveys of rabies, wildlife that commonly harbor the virus include bats, raccoons, foxes, and skunks.

The most likely sources of rabies are wild animals, such as skunks, raccoons, bats, foxes, and coyotes.

Rabies is a deadly virus spreaded primarly by raccoons, foxes, skunks, and bats.

Rabies is a deadly virus spread primarily by raccoons, skunks, foxes, and bats.