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- From: jeffp@.wsu.edu.wsu.edu (Jeff Parke)
- Subject: Re: Rabies (was raccoons and dogs :( )
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 01:09:00 GMT
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- klier@iscsvax.uni.edu wrote:
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- > Even if you don't live in Cromwell, CT. Story Co., Iowa, is one of the
- > US rabies "hot spots", with an incredibly high number of cases reported
- > .... One of the reasons that the rabies
- > reports are so high there MAY be that there is a vet college and the
- > National Animal Disease Lab there--- more people who recognize the disease
- > in all forms.
-
- Rabies, an always fatal disease, rarely goes unrecognized in the fatal
- end. Northwest Iowa has a lot of rabid skunks running around. Rabies
- incidence in a given locality is proportional to the number of rabid
- skunks, raccoons, foxes or bats that are carrying the disease.
-
- --
- Jeff Parke <jeffp@vcs10.vetmed.wsu.edu>
- also: jeffp@WSUVM1.bitnet AOL: JeffParke
- Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine class of 1994
- Pullman, WA 99164-7012
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