STRATFORD (CT)— Health officials are warning anyone who visited the town's animal shelter between April 9 and 20 they may have had contact with a cat that tested positive for rabies.
An adoption event took place at the shelter, at 9 Frog Pond Lane, on April 12 — one of the days the infected cat was at the facility.
Health officials are warning you that they've seen an increase in rabies activity in the wild animal population in southern Arizona. There have also been problems in Yavapai County, after a man who was hiking was attacked by a fox. He was able to kill the fox, but it tested positive for an aggressive form of rabies.
Colorado state lab confirms rabies positive skunk
The laboratory of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has confirmed a rabies-positive skunk submitted from central Kit Carson County. The skunk was submitted to the state lab on April 10, after it aggressively charged a child and his kenneled dog in the garage of the residence.
Rabies now confirmed on fourth skunk in Camden
Four skunks in town have tested positive for rabies recently, according to the police department.
Authorities confirm Sweetwater Juno raccoon as rabid
District 2 Public Health has confirmed that a raccoon from the Sweetwater Juno Road area has tested positive for rabies, Dawson County Extension Service Agent Clark Beusse said Tuesday.
The raccoon made advances toward a small boy bouncing on a trampoline last week and then attempted to attack the boy's dog.
Fox bites children in Lake County (FL)
A crazy wildlife encounter Tuesday night has a group of Lake County kids fearing they might have rabies. The kids, all under the age of 10, were playing in their yard in Bassville Park Tuesday night. Two boys were roughhousing near some bushes when a fox came out of nowhere and bit one of them.
In trying to separate the boy from the animal, the second boy was also bitten. The fox then followed the screaming kids into the house and into the kitchen where it bit a three-year-old girl on the leg.
Fox that attacked Troy man had rabies
John McKellar, Pike County public health environmentalist, said the fox that attacked a man in Hillside Mobile Home Park on Saturday is unlikely to be an isolated occurrence. Since multiple foxes live together in a den, chances are high that other infected foxes are in the area.
Three dogs are quarantined after killing a rabid skunk in their yard on the 20000 block of Hemlock Street in Groveland.
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It’s a good time to remember that any animal that acts unusual should be reported to your local Animal Control and/or local law enforcement dispatcher.
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