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1 <br /> 1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. V_- h- <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: September 20, 1995 <br /> SUBJECT: Presentation of Rabies Prevention Program <br /> DEPARTMENT: HEALTH PUBLIC HEARING: Yes x No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> HEALTH DIRECTOR'S OFFICE X2411 <br /> 1. Program Outline. <br /> 2. What everyone should know about rabies. TELEPHONE NUMBER: <br /> 3. About Rabies. Hillsborough -732-8181 <br /> 4. Rabies Cinic Posters. Chapel Hill -968-4501 <br /> 5. Orange County Animal Control Mebane -227-2031 <br /> Rabies Pamphlet. Durham -688-7331 <br /> 6. Proposed Animal Control Ordinance <br /> Changes re: Fee and Civil penalty schedule. <br /> (Attachments 2 -6 under separte cover) <br /> PURPOSE: <br /> To present the Rabies Prevention Program designed to counter the increased possibility of <br /> exposure to rabies due to the raccoon based rabies epidemic spreading toward Orange County <br /> and to request additional funds to cover the cost of elements of the program. <br /> BACKGROUND: <br /> During 1994 twenty eight North Carolina counties reported 175 cases of rabies in animals, <br /> including 143 raccoons. Through August 26, 1995, 41 counties reported 327 rabid animals, <br /> including 253 raccoons and 40 foxes. Closest to home are reported cases of terrestrial rabies in <br /> Granville, Wake and Moore counties while here in Orange we have found a single rabid bat. <br /> The movement of the epidemic from both the northeastern and southern counties toward the <br /> eastern piedmont indicates our need to be prepared for the arrival of terrestrial rabies in Orange <br /> County in 1996. <br /> Animal control has reviewed our own program as well as the programs of select counties and we <br /> seek the Board's support to fund our plan, which we are in the process of implementing. <br /> The following is a brief description of rabies itself- <br />