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Animal Services Monthly Report November, 2007 <br />7 <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, Animal Control Officers <br />investigated five (5) cases in which there were possible rabies exposures. Usually, these <br />are cases invo lving known or suspected contact between a do mest ic small animal such as <br />a dog or a cat and a wild animal such as a raccoon, as well as whether there is indirect <br />contact between a human and pet member of a househo ld in these situations. But our <br />Animal Control Officers are also responsible for bite reports invo lving dogs and cats (as <br />well as other animals) and a human victim. In these cases, it is a legal requirement and <br />public healt h precaution that a dog or cat bit ing a human being be contained and observed <br />for a period of ten (10) days—thereby ensuring that the bite victim was not exposed to <br />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—1,021out of a total of 1,111 vaccinations—continue to be <br />performed at veterinary establishments. In addit ion, another ninety (90) animals were <br />vaccinated at our Animal Shelter prior to their adoption or recovery. <br />The Animal Services Department offered no lowcost rabies vaccination clinics in <br />November, but soon dates will be set for 2008 clinics. Seventeen clinics were held <br />during 2007 and 1157 dogs and cats were vaccinated as a result. <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 <br />animals were confirmed rabid by North Carolina’s rabies laboratory, an increase of 62 <br />cases fro m the year before. <br />Special Monthly Notes <br />There have been several challenges and changes that have affected animal disposit ion <br />numbers this month. One of the most notable was Orange Count y’s help with a puppy <br />mill seizure in Carroll Count y, Virginia. The Humane Society of the United States, along <br />with local o fficials in Virginia took possessio n of over 900 dogs and puppies and sought <br />help fro m shelters in mult iple states along the East Coast to help place these dogs. <br />Orange Count y Animal Shelter was able to take in twentyfive, all o f which were <br />transferred to placement partners or placed into new adoptive ho mes.
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