Cheryl wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> On 7/28/2016 12:13 PM, Gary wrote:
>
> > Anyway about the rabies thing...saw on the news just this morning
> > that someone caught (?) a raccoon with rabies (?) only about 12
> > blocks from my house. Never heard about that anywhere near me in
> > 40-years until now. scary.
>
> I've heard about quite a lot of rabies cases in MD recently, and
> unfortunately many of them are cats.

We had an incident with a rabid fox who attacked 2 people and
apparently a dog or so. Up around Fort Story. That is pretty much a
common problem here.

Cats generally top the list for rabies among domestics and the reason
is people in many states are not required to give rabies treatment to
cats (and many think it's silly, they just recall Old Yeller was a dog
and associate it all to dogs.)

http://www.cdc.gov/rabies/resources/...ons/index.html

Start digging from there. Wildlife endemic here. Foxes, skunks, bats,
racoons are some of the top ones. Deer and moose can be affected I
think?

For domestic pets, cats, goats, horses and dogs seem the high points
(in that order but I was looking at VA specifically over several years
and we have a stray pig in there).

https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/epidemi...ents/pdf/2015h
ealthspace.pdf

Interesting, cats near wild foxes statistically here....

23 Jun 2016- Rabid racoon in VB (Pungo area of it)
http://wavy.com/2016/06/23/rabid-rac...ea-of-virginia
-beach/

21Jun2014
http://wavy.com/2014/06/21/fox-attac...ach-neighborho
od/

31Jul2015 Otter
http://pilotonline.com/news/local/he...eople-in-virgi
nia-beach-tests-positive-for/article_0d0b5c69-ba81-553a-b261-c71634b9a0b
f.html

Aug2015- racoon again
http://pilotonline.com/news/local/he...itive-for-rabi
es-in-virginia-beach/article_6a0a2c8e-f0ab-5bb3-b8b6-3e37bcb96c73.html


Most people in my city are unaware of this, but the longer term
residents know ....

Do you know the stats for your own state?
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