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Animal Services Monthly Report March, 2007 <br />6 <br />possible exposures of people and/or their pets. Table C.1. Rabies Exposures and <br />Investigated and Positive Cases shows that this month there were three (3) posit ive rabies <br />teststwo for raccoons and one for a skunk. These tests brought the total number of <br />posit ive tests to seven (7) for 2007. In 2006 there were twentyseven posit ive cases— <br />eighteen (18) raccoons, four (4) bats, four (4) skunks, and one (1) fox. <br />Our own public educat ion activit ies stress that pet owners not only need to be sure that <br />their pets are vaccinated and licensed but that a dog or cat with a current rabies <br />vaccination must receive a booster shot within sevent ytwo (72) hours of any exposure to <br />rabies. Unless an exposed pet with a current vaccination receives a booster shot within <br />that time frame, the requirements of North Carolina law is the same as for an <br />unvaccinated animal—namely, euthanasia or a six (6) month quarant ine. In this regard, <br />staff stresses the immediate reporting of any possible contact to animal control and/or <br />public healt h authorities to ensure the healt h of all members of a househo ld—human and <br />pet alike. <br />As can also be seen fro m the table on rabies exposures, three (3) posit ive tests in the <br />mo nth resulted from our Animal Control Officers investigation o f ten (10) cases in which <br />there were possible rabies exposures. Usually, these are cases invo lving known or <br />suspected contact between a domest ic small animal such as a dog or a cat and a wild <br />animal such as a raccoon, as well as whether there is an indirect contact between a human <br />and pet member of a househo ld in these situations. But our Animal Control Officers are <br />also responsible for bite reports invo lving dogs and cats (as well as other animals) and a <br />human victim. In these cases, it is a legal requirement and public healt h precaution that a <br />dog or cat bit ing a human being be contained and observed for a period of ten (10) <br />days—thereby ensuring that the bite victim was not exposed to the rabies virus. <br />Efforts to ensure current vaccination, for the welfare of pets and the people with who m <br />they come into contact, are ongoing and act ivit ies in this area are captured by vaccination <br />statist ics compiled by our Animal Control Divisio n. As is ordinarily the case, the <br />majorit y o f these vaccinations – 1,190 out of a total o f 1,453 vaccinations – continue to <br />be performed at veterinary establishments but another sevent yeight (78) animals were <br />vaccinated at our Animal Shelter prior to their adoption or recovery. <br />In addit ion, in the month of March the Animal Services Department organized two low <br />cost rabies vaccination clinics in Orange Count y. A total o f one hundred and eight yfive <br />(185) cats and dogs were vaccinated at these clinics. <br />All o f these act ivit ies—public educat ion and outreach, invest igations and enforcement, <br />and providing lowcost vaccination clinics—are crit ical given that Orange County <br />continues to be affected by the epidemic of “eastern raccoon rabies” that began in the <br />latter half o f the 1990s. Their essential nature is further underscored by the current view <br />that we are on the upside o f a raccoon rabies cycle that may bring even higher numbers of <br />confirmed rabies cases than we have seen in recent years. North Carolina public health <br />veterinarians have articulated this view because of their awareness that last year 520
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