AR-News: (US CT) PDDH Issues Rabies Reminder

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Voices May 15, 2004



SOUTHBURY - The State Laboratory has recently isolated rabies from several 
raccoons within the Pomperaug District Department of Health area. 
 
The Pomperaug District Department of Health reminds the public that rabies is 
endemic to Connecticut and that care must be taken with wild animals. 
Rabies is caused by a virus that attacks the central nervous system. In 
Connecticut, rabies is most often found in raccoons, skunks, foxes and bats. 
Cats, dogs and livestock can also get rabies if they have not had a rabies 
vaccine. 
Some animals, such as squirrels, mice, rats, rabbits, and chipmunks, almost 
never get rabies. Since rabies is a disease of mammals, birds, reptiles, fish 
and insects never get rabies. 
Rabies is spread through infected saliva. Bites from an infected animal will 
pass on the virus, as will being scratched by an infected animal. 



full story:
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1380&dept_id=157522&newsid=11652937&PAG
=461&rfi=9 



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