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A Lancaster County hunter has been treated for rabies after field dressing a deer Jan. 20 in Valley Township, Chester County. The deer later tested positive for rabies. "The hunter contacted us about his concerns that the deer was unfit for human consumption," said John Veylupek, a wildlife conservation officer for the Pennsylvania Game Commission. "[He] said that he saw the deer standing in a creek, straining and growling. He thought there was a coyote nearby from the sounds the deer was making." Having cleaned the deer without wearing gloves and with open scratches on his hand, the hunter was...

Occupy Wall Street is descending rapidly into a caricature of the Orwellian farce on which it was predicated: Animal Farm. "Never mind the milk, comrades!" cried Napoleon, placing himself in front of the buckets. "That will be attended to. The harvest is more important. Comrade Snowball will lead the way. I shall follow in a few minutes. Forward, comrades! The hay is waiting." So the animals trooped down to the hayfield to begin the harvest, and when they came back in the evening it was noticed that the milk had disappeared. - Animal Farm, Chapter IIVolunteers who are preparing redistributed food...

A Mexican teen became the first person in the United States to die from a vampire bat -- and the Centers for Disease Control warned that the bats may be spreading in the country. The 19-year-old migrant worker contracted rabies from a bite on his heel from the blood sucker on July 15th, 2010. He was bitten in Michoacan, Mexico, 10 days before he left for the United States to work on a sugar cane plantation in Louisiana. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) only just confirmed on Friday, Aug. 12, that his death was the first such case in...

Pinal County Public Health is issuing a rabies advisory and urging Pinal County residents to have their animals vaccinated against the fatal disease. Last month, a Mammoth-San Manuel area man was startled awake by something pawing at his face. It turned out to be a stealthy skunk that had entered the man’s home through his dog door. He was able to get the skunk outside where he killed it with a shovel. The skunk tested positive for rabies, a fatal disease that can be transmitted to humans and other animals through contact with bodily fluids. “Although this situation may paint...

FORT LAUDERDALE— Broward County plans to crack down on pet owners with dogs and cats that don't have their rabies vaccines or pet license tags. Animal care officers will be doing checks door to door and at dog parks. Violators can face $135 fines but will be given a 30-day warning. Even indoor cats are required to have the rabies vaccine and license tag.

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BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals said a Hispanic field worker died over the weekend of rabies. The victim was initially taken to a hospital in New Roads and transferred to New Orleans, where he later died. Lisa Faust with DHH confirmed the case is the first human death in Louisiana attributed to rabies in more than 60 years. The department reported it has contacted the victim's co-workers and tested them. Health officials are continuing to follow up on their treatment. DHH added the man, who is unidentified at this time, contacted rabies in...

Rabid vampire bats have attacked more than 500 people in Peru's Amazon, leading to the deaths of four children. The attacks occurred in the village of Urakusa, in northeastern Peru, where the indigenous Aguajun tribe lives. At least four people are believed to have succumbed to rabies as a result. Medical supplies and vaccines to treat those infected with rabies have been sent to the tribe. Rabies, a virus that causes acute inflammation of the brain, is usually spread to humans by dog bites and has an incubation period that can last several months. Health teams are looking for people...

More than 500 other people in the northeastern Peruvian Amazon region, close to the border with Ecuador - all of them Awajun Indians - have been bitten by the blood-sucking bats. Rabies outbreaks - particularly among bats - are a regular occurrence in Peru.

PROVIDENCE—A fox that attacked and bit a Foster woman has tested positive for rabies, the Rhode Island Department of Health said Wednesday. Laura Gaudette, 20 said she was in her yard on Walker Road on Tuesday when the fox attacked her. According to her father, the animal also bit the car, a beach ball, a garden hose and the family dog. He shot and killed the fox. Gaudette has begun a series of rabies vaccinations. “My concern is I just want to get them because I don’t know what could happen,“ Gaudette said. The treatment is expected to take 4...

Enraged bobcat attacks dog, injures man Staff April 21, 2010 + Enlarge The Pinal County Public Health Services District is issuing a rabies advisory, urging Pinal County residents to have their animals vaccinated against the fatal disease. On April 20 a resident of Mammoth was attacked by a bobcat while outside his home in his yard. The bobcat lunged from under a parked vehicle and caused numerous bite and scratch injuries to the victim before friends assisted, beating it with sticks and a gardening hoe until it ran off. The man received medical attention for his wounds. The bobcat then...

ROUGEMONT (WTVD) -- Health officials say anyone who visited a local farm recently may have been exposed to a rabid donkey and should see a doctor. The donkey at Elodie Farms in Rougemont died on April 8 from rabies. Testing revealed the donkey did not spread rabies to any other animals, but people need to be examined.

Ron Paul, the failed presidential candidate of 2008, has become the Cujo of the Republican Party, but not for many of the reasons you may think. Just like the loveable St. Bernard of Stephen King’s creative mind, there is an often unobserved duality to the Texas congressman. Like Cujo, Ron Paul is far from being “all bad.”

Here is video of James Gruver on Fox and Friends, where he talked about his experience of killing a rabid bobcat with his bare hands. Gruver managed to get the bobcat in a "death grip" and survive. . . . (VIDEO)

The orange and white stray cat was brought to Vinton Veterinary Hospital on June 26th and tested positive for rabies four days later. A notice went up on neighbors doors in the Garden City area of Roanoke City. The cat had been seen in the 1500 block of Hillview Avenue. Heather Reed is a Veterinary Technician at Vinton Veterinary Hospital and now has to undergo rabies shots after being bitten by the rabid cat. She says, “I was at home when the health department called me and um got a little frantic because i am five months pregnant and i...

Evolving faster than any other new rabies virus on record, a northern-Arizona rabies strain has mutated to become contagious among skunks and now foxes, experts believe. The strain looks to be spreading fast, commanding attention from disease researchers across the United States. It's not so unusual for rabid animals to attack people on hiking trails and in driveways, or even in a bar—as happened March 27, when an addled bobcat chased pool players around the billiards table at the Chaparral in Cottonwood. Nor is it odd that rabid skunks and foxes are testing positive for a contagious rabies strain commonly...

SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) Sonoma County musician Doug Bowes will remember this Easter season as the one where he happened upon the Easter Bunny, and it attacked him. Bowes was walking near his home at about 11 a.m. Wednesday when the attack occurred. A small, gray jack rabbit bounded toward him from a nearby fence. ``I thought, 'Gosh, this is somebody's pet,' '' Bowes said. He put his hand down in a friendly gesture and the bunny lunged and bit him. Bowes began to walk home, nursing a sore hand with broken skin, but the rabbit followed him. A short...

The Northern Ireland woman who contracted the rabies virus while working with abandoned animals in South Africa has lost her fight for life. Lisa McMurray had spent weeks in the Intensive Care Unit at the Royal Victoria Hospital after contracting the deadly disease.

Prescott, AZ (AHN) - An Arizona woman has to run for at least a mile with a rabid fox hanging on to her arm after it bit her while she was jogging, before driving herself to a hospital to receive treatment. Report said the woman, from Chino Valley south of the Grand Canyon, Ariz. was jogging on a trail near Prescott when she encountered the rabid fox which bit her leg. She told authorities she grabbed the fox by the neck but it bit her arm.

Stevensville, MT (AHN) - Health officials in a Montana county issued a health advisory after the mother of two elementary school student brought a dead bat into an elementary school for a demonstration and allowed about 90 students to touch it. The mother reportedly found the dead bat in a cat's mouth, thought the bat was interesting, brought it into school and gave presentations on the bat in five classrooms, allowing students to touch the bat and giving them disinfectant wipes for their hands afterward. However, the bat was later confirmed to have had rabies, which is a potentially fatal...

-snip- The Iowa Department of Public Health says the woman reported a bat in her house but wasn't too worried about it. She turned on her automatic coffee maker before bedtime and drank her coffee the next morning. She discovered the bat in the filter when she went to clean it that night. The woman has undergone treatment for possible rabies. Health officials say that the bat was sent to a lab but that its brain was too cooked by the hot water to determine whether it had rabies.

CARACAS, Venezuela — At least 38 Warao Indians have died in remote villages in Venezuela, and medical experts suspect an outbreak of rabies spread by bites from vampire bats. -snip-

Sixteen people who fed, kissed and held a baby raccoon on Hilton Head Island now are being treated by a physician after the animal tested positive for rabies. There also are seven more people who might need vaccines to prevent them from contracting the disease "Someone adopted a baby raccoon and passed it around to everyone they knew and kissed it on the lips," . "There was a lot of affectionate handling, kissing it and feeding it. Part of that is it was three weeks old, and they inserted fingers into the raccoon's mouth. Saliva is one way that rabies...

PHOENIX -- A rabid mountain lion like the one pictured attacked a 10-year-old boy north of Phoenix on Saturday, before being shot to death by a family member, said Randy Babb of the Arizona Department Game and Fish. "The family was riding all-terrain vehicles, took a break and while relaxing, an adult female mountain lion attacked the boy," Babb said. The boy was lucky to have suffered only minor scratches to his back, Babb said. The incident occurred in the Tonto National Forest in an area called Sheep Bridge in the extreme southeast corner of Yavapai County. The region is...

(BEIJING) - China has ordered all dogs be given compulsory inoculations against rabies to try to quell an upsurge in the disease amongst humans, the Health Ministry announced on Friday. The country has an exploding dog population, but less than 10 percent are vaccinated against rabies, the ministry's official Health News said. China recorded 3,311 human cases last year, up from 2,651 in 2004, it added. "The situation is extremely serious," the report said. "In order to control as soon as possible the rise in infections and protect people's health and security, the Health and Agriculture Ministries have demanded the...

MARSHALL: Dogs not vaccinated for disease should be euthanized. A wolf killed during an attack on sled dogs in the Yukon River village of Marshall last week has tested positive for rabies, and state officials Wednesday night said unvaccinated dogs in the village should be euthanized. The wolf was part of a pack that killed a half-dozen dogs the night of Oct. 24 before villagers chased them out, killing the one wolf and wounding others. Tests returned late Wednesday showed that animal had rabies, and the state's wildlife veterinarian said it's possible other wolves in the pack also have the...

From Plymouth Township police... Plymouth Township – On Tuesday, October 2, 2007, Plymouth Township Police Officers responded to the area of Ann Arbor Trail and Beacon Hill Dr regarding a person that was bitten by a fox. This person was jogging along the roadside when the attack occurred. Later that same day, a resident was in his yard and was also attacked and bit by a fox. Shortly after the second incident a third victim was attacked, not injured, and was able to kill the fox with a garden tool. The investigation revealed that there was one fox involved in...

HAGERSTOWN - A rabid black bear trying to rip out a window air conditioner lost its tug-of-war with a terrified housewife when her husband blasted the beast with a shotgun, the woman and a state wildlife official said today. The bear rushed the house after Charlotte Stanton yelled out her screen door to try to scare it away from a goat pen. Stanton, 39, of rural Grantsville in Garrett County, said she was losing her tussle with the 134-pound sow when Michael Stanton pulled the trigger. "I finally yelled at my husband, because I couldn't hold on to that air...

The aggressive bear that was killed a week ago by an Amish Road homeowner after the animal charged and then attempted to pull out a window air conditioner has tested positive for rabies... "We sent the head to our health and mental hygiene lab in Baltimore on Thursday and got the results Friday," ... At 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 29, the homeowners had heard a commotion outside and saw a bear attempting to get at two penned pygmy goats. When the family hollered from its main doorway at the bear, it wheeled and charged the house. "At first it was...

(Two years after amazing recovery, Fond du Lac girl is graduating today) Fond du Lac, WI - Jeanna Giese stood in the middle of the atrium at Marian College, nervously twisting a sparkly ring and frequently touching a blue bracelet that symbolized her miraculous recovery from rabies. As she cycled between anticipation of her date's arrival and fear that he might not show up, it was hard to believe that doctors once questioned whether the teen would be able to return to school - let alone recover enough to dance with friends at her senior prom or graduate on time...

Rabies Survivor Viewed as 'Medical Marvel' August 29, 2007 FOND DU LAC, Wis. — Jeanna Giese, like many other teenagers entering college, admits to being nervous about classes and meeting new friends. But Giese isn't your average freshman. She is a medical marvel who has been studied and chronicled for nearly three years as a one-of-a-kind case: She survived rabies without vaccination. Click here for a photo essay of Jeanna Giese Her new classmates, and anyone else who runs into her on the Marian College campus, will be hard-pressed to tell that she had to relearn how to talk, walk...

Softball players, coaches, family members and anyone else who had direct contact with a gray stray kitten while at the July 13-15 South Atlantic Summer Showdown softball tournament in Spartanburg county are being urged to call 211 or the closest county public health department as soon as possible. DHEC is investigating a possible rabies exposure after a stray cat found at the ball field during the tournament and passed around in a box later was found to have rabies. Anyone who was bitten, scratched, licked or otherwise exposed to the kit-tens saliva while at the tournament is asked to contact...

World health agency probes epidemic's cause as 2008 Olympics in Beijing approaches BEIJING–Huagong Road, on the southeastern reaches of Beijing, is a dusty stretch of ramshackle auto repair shops, family-run restaurants and – unfortunately for Wu Qingshan – the occasional stray dog. A 22-year-old cook, Wu had come to Beijing just four months ago, as do many people from China's far-flung provinces, to cash in on the capital's economic boom and seek a better life. But a chance encounter with a small, feral dog ended all that. Early this month, Wu became the latest victim of a rabies epidemic that...

(AP) A 5-year-old boy grabbed a rabid fox by the neck and pinned it to the ground during a family cookout, protecting six other children before his stepfather could kill the animal. "I wanted to protect my little brother," said Rayshun McDowell, who battled the fox in the front yard of his home Sunday in Kingstown, a town about 50 miles west of Charlotte. The fox bit Rayshun in the leg, but the 61-pound-boy held the animal down for more than a minute. Animal control officials said Tuesday that test results confirmed the fox had rabies, which is fatal unless...

KINGSTOWN, N.C. -- A 5-year-old North Carolina boy grabbed a rabid fox by the neck and pinned it to the ground during a family cookout, protecting six other children before his stepfather could kill the animal. "I wanted to protect my little brother," Rayshun McDowell said. It happened Sunday in the front yard of the McDowell's home in Kingston, about 50 miles west of Charlotte. Rayshun got bit in the leg but the 61-pound boy still held the fox down for more than a minute until his stepfather could get there and kill the animal. Test results confirm the fox...

SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Roving “dog-beating squads” have been ordered to kill all canines within a three-kilometer (two-mile) area in a southwestern Chinese city after two residents died of rabies, officials said. The order in Chongqing's Changshou district is the second in two months in the city. The measure drew a sharp response from a coalition of environmental and animal rights groups, who sent an open letter to media calling for a boycott of Chongqing tourism and local products. It was not immediately clear whether the order covered household pets, or just strays. “If we continue to rely on such...

Health officials in New York are warning residents to stay away from stray animals over the holiday period. The advice follows a large increase in the reported number of rabies cases, including seven in December alone. The outbreak is centred on the borough of Staten Island, which lies off Manhattan, where 35 animals have tested positive for the virus during 2006.

WILMINGTON - He was irresistible -- a cuddly, black puppy, affectionate and playful despite his broken paw and his apparent abandonment on a roadside. Unfortunately for his rescuers, he was also rabid. Now about 40 people will have to be tested to see whether they were exposed to the lethal virus while the puppy, dubbed Johnny, was being treated at College Road Animal Hospital.

Howls over new 1 dog policy 01/12/2006 16:51  - (SA)   Beijing - Amid fears of police storming into homes and calls for neighbours to inform on each other, a controversial new "one dog" policy in China's capital is eliciting howls of anger from pooch lovers. Beijing authorities, concerned by the growing number of dogs in the city and a rising incidence of rabies, have decreed that households can raise only one canine. Dogs taller than 35cm have been banned, and all dogs must now be registered and vaccinated or face being taken from their owners. While the new rules themselves have...

Beijing gets 'one dog policy'08/11/2006 19:24??-?(SA)?? ?Beijing - Beijing has launched a "one dog policy" in an effort to curb a sharp rise in rabies linked to the ballooning population of unregistered canines. "Each family is permitted to raise one dog," the government said in a statement seen on Wednesday on its website announcing the new policy. "Large dogs, ferocious dogs and the unregulated raising of dogs are not allowed." "Violators of the regulations will be fined up to 5?000 yuan ($640) and their pets will be taken into custody," it said, citing regulations issued this week. Rabies has...

(Griswold-AP, Oct. 31, 2006 5:35 AM) _ Sightings of foxes have forced Griswold schools to keep children indoors. School officials Monday banned all outside activity, including recess, gym classes, walks and after-school programs outdoors. The ban will stay in force until officials and experts can offer assurances on outdoor safety. Community groups that use the campus also were alerted and athletic games are being scheduled at other schools. Griswold schools are one campus adjacent to a wooded area. A spokesman for the state Department of Environmental Protection says the agency will send trappers to the area to catch the foxes...

SHANGHAI, Aug. 9 — It was late last month, the boy said, his voice still tinged with emotion, when he and his father were forced to march their two German shepherds to a public square and hang them from a tree. The boy, Xia Shaoli, was not alone in his pain. Officials in Mouding County in southwestern Yunnan Province had ordered the mass extermination of dogs, pets as well as strays, after three people died in a rabies outbreak. And as a crowd gathered around a large tree in the village of Xiajiashan, owners complied one after another with commands...

Five of the popular animals euthanized after girl, 9, is bitten Public condolences poured into the Minnesota Zoo on Friday, as zoo visitors and staff mourned the deaths of an entire meerkat family. Kids raced to the outdoor exhibit in Apple Valley and plastered their hands against the glass, only to find nothing inside. A small boy in a stroller wailed as his mother told him the creatures were away on vacation. "This is a hard day. This was frustrating, sad and totally avoidable," said Tony Fisher, zoo collections manager. "People need to respect the barriers we put up to...

Zoo meerkats test negative for rabies Five of the popular animals euthanized after girl, 9, is bittenBY MEGGEN LINDSAY Pioneer Press Public condolences poured into the Minnesota Zoo on Friday, as zoo visitors and staff mourned the deaths of an entire meerkat family. Kids raced to the outdoor exhibit in Apple Valley and plastered their hands against the glass, only to find nothing inside. A small boy in a stroller wailed as his mother told him the creatures were away on vacation. "This is a hard day. This was frustrating, sad and totally avoidable," said Tony Fisher, zoo collections manager....

Rabies shots urged for 950 Girl Scouts Associated Press LEESBURG, Va. - Officials are recommending that nearly 1,000 Girl Scouts who may have been exposed to rabies at a Northern Virginia camp consider getting protective vaccinations. There is only a small chance that any of the girls were infected by bats that were found in some of the sleeping shelters at Camp Potomac Woods, Loudoun County officials said. But authorities are erring on the side of caution because around 1 percent of bats carry rabies, a viral disease that is incurable once symptoms appear. Bats can bite children in their...

Sixteen die of rabies after dog attacks in E. China city www.chinaview.cn 2006-08-04 00:51:18 JINAN, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- Sixteen people have died of rabies over the past eight months after a rash of dog attacks in Jining City, east China's Shandong Province, the local government said Thursday. The disease was reported at 16 villages across the municipality, where more than 500,000 dogs live as pets or guard dogs. The local epidemic prevention authority has announced it will kill dogs within five kilometers of each affected village. Dogs in other parts will receive vaccinations against the disease. Epidemic prevention officials...

After three deaths from rabies, the local government ordered the blanket extermination of dogs. Pets were subsequently killed in the streets in front of their owners. Only police and army dogs were spared. Beijing (AsiaNews/agencies) – No less than 50,000 dogs were put down by government order after the death of three people from rabies. In Mouding county in the south-west province of Yunnan, the massacre lasted five days and only military guard dogs and police canine units were spared. Dogs being walked were taken from their owners and killed there and then. Other teams charged with slaughtering the dogs...

John Bolton, a notorious neocon warmonger who could not be confirmed as America's ambassador to the United Nations by even the compliant and corrupt U.S. Senate, got the job as a recess appointment. He is using the platform to push America into war with Iran. Bolton told the Financial Times on June 9 that the Bush regime has no intention of reaching an agreement with Iran. Time is running out for diplomacy, Bolton said. Iran has a short time remaining in which it can give up its right under the nonproliferation treaty to enrich uranium for nuclear energy or be...

WASHINGTON, Conn. -- A rabid fox attacked and bit two people and scared several others in town Saturday. Cyndy Brissett, the town animal control officer, said the fox had been living peacefully with its mate on a local property for about two years, frequently venturing through yards and eating food scraps, until Saturday. That's when the crazed fox started attacking residents. First was Janet Hill of 67 Shearer Road. She was gardening about 11 a.m. when she felt a sudden pain in her leg. Shocked, she spun around to see what it was, and saw a fox hanging from her,...

Tuesday, May 16, I was wakened from a deep sleep at 5:30 am by something biting me, I leapt out of bed and turned on the closet light to see a large rat run under the covers. I was later informed by a lady two streets over that we are under a sudden rat invasion. I had never seen a trace of a rat in my home. I took my bloody thumb to the sink and washed the wound throughly and put alchol on it, then repeated about ten mins later. I called my physician who told me to go...