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Snip: New York City is slated to put radiation detectors -- that shouldn't be triggered by cat litter and other harmless materials -- at a Staten Island port this fall. The advanced detectors will be coming this fall to the New York Container Terminal on Staten Island. The Staten Island port is getting the cutting-edge technology, which result in fewer false alarms, allowing Customs inspectors to find more threating cargo.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said his department also is expanding a test program to prevent nuclear and dirty-bomb materials already in the U.S. from entering New York City. Chertoff said security experts are looking at ways to put the detectors in roads, rails and seaports outside New York. Scanners are in place at the Holland Tunnel and Kennedy Airport.
Two shipping containers go missing at port of Mombasa
Snip: The co-chairman to the joint parliamentary committee investigating the Artur saga, Ramadhan Kajembe says two containers connected to the alleged Armenian brothers were smuggled out of the port of Mombasa without verification or payment of duty.
Skunk tests positive for rabies in Prunedale, CA
Snip: A skunk found in the Prunedale area has tested positive for rabies and is part of an ongoing public health threat in Monterey County, according to the Monterey County Health Department. Since January, a total of six skunks and one gray fox found in the Prunedale area have tested positive for the rabies virus. A bat found in Salinas also tested positive for the virus.
4 people, 2 dogs exposed to rabies at Friendville, MD
Snip: The county health department says two people who tried to capture a rabid raccoon were bitten, and two other people petted the raccoon after it was captured and contained. The two dogs were inside a corn shed with the animal. Health officials say as of yesterday, all four people who had contact with the raccoon were being treated for rabies. The dogs had been vaccinated against rabies but will get booster shots.
Texas bat tests positive for rabies
Snip: Police responded to a call July 7 reporting a sick bat at a downtown business and arrived to find it still alive on a desk inside the building, Capt. Jim Dunlap said. n their efforts to help the bat, two employees had physical contact with the animal. Even though neither person had been scratched or bitten, police felt it would be prudent to have the bat tested for rabies.
North Carolina officials hunting for rabies victim
Snip: Guilford County Department of Public Health officials are searching for a woman and a dog, both of whom they believe were bitten by a rabid coyote. The attack was one of two Friday at the Guilford Courthouse National Military Park at 2332 New Garden Road. A man, whose name is not being released, also was assaulted by a coyote but avoided any bites.
Rabies increasing in Chesco (PA)
Snip: Rabies is on the increase among Chester County's animal population. There have been 18 confirmed cases in animals so far this year, said John Maher, county public-health director. There were 16 cases during all of last year, he said. The infected animals include one dog, three cats, two bats, and 12 raccoons.
Bat with rabies found at Deep Eddy Pool in Austin
Snip: If you've been near Deep Eddy Pool recently, know that a bat found at the pool last Saturday has tested positive for rabies.
Snip: The incident occurred on Tuesday, July 11 when a man was bitten while attempting to pick up a raccoon near his home on the 300 block of Ridgecrest Road in Cary. Because raccoons are at high risk of rabies, Cary's Animal Control officers had to euthanize the animal and transport it for testing. The Town of Cary was notified Thursday, that the raccoon was infected with the rabies virus, and officials have notified the victim about the raccoon's diagnosis.
Rabid fox attacks boy and his dog in Orange County, FLA
Snip; On Sunday, a 12-year-old boy and his dog were attacked by a fox in their own yard on Apopka Vineland Road. The boy's father killed the fox and it tested positive for rabies. The 12-year-old has been treated for rabies and is doing okay.
11th confirmed case of rabies in Guilford County
Snip: The Guilford County Department of Public Health is alerting citizens that a fox, located on Northwest School Road in the northwest section of Guilford County was captured and tested positive for the rabies virus today. This is the eleventh case of rabies in Guilford County this year. The rabid animal had no actual contact with humans or domestic animals.
Groundhog tests positive for rabies in Richmond
Snip: A groundhog picked up by Richmond Animal Care and Control this past weekend tested positive for rabies, indicating a risk for rabies infection in the Richmond area. The groundhog, found by Maymont Park staff, was not one of the park’s wildlife exhibit animals.
Crews observed that the groundhog was acting strangely and captured it. City Animal Care and Control officers responded and took the animal for examination. A veterinarian working with Animal Control determined that the groundhog’s symptoms warranted rabies testing. The animal was euthanized and tested. Test results were positive.
6 more bats in Ohio to be tested for rabies
Snip: Bats are supposed to swoop, not drop from the sky. But that is what happened in German Township on Friday causing health officials to give another warning about possible rabid bats in the area.