44 US equines succumb to rabies in 2011
Rabies was detected inwards 44 equines inwards 2011, according to figures from the National Center for Emerging together with Zoonotic Infectious Disease at the Centers for Disease Control together with Prevention.
Figures from the agency, reported inwards the latest number of Equine Disease Quarterly, demo in that place were 6037 cases of confirmed creature rabies inwards 49 states together with Puerto Rico. Hawaii is a rabies-free state.
Of these rabies cases, 92 per cent were confirmed inwards wild animals together with 8 per cent inwards domestic species. These produce non stand upward for all rabies cases inwards the United States of America since rabies cases, specially inwards wildlife, larn unobserved together with undetected.
The rabid equids inwards 2011 were inwards Florida (1); Georgia (1); Kentucky (1); Maine (1); Nebraska (4); New Bailiwick of Jersey (1); North Carolina (3); Oklahoma (1); Puerto Rico (4); South Dakota (1); Tennessee (2); Texas (22); together with Virginia (2).
Canada reported 2 cases inwards equids. United Mexican States reported 3 rabid horses.
Rabies is a viral illness that is a reportable illness inwards the United States of America for humans together with animals.
In the continental US, the main reservoirs of rabies virus are raccoons, skunks, foxes together with bats. Historically, bat rabies has been confirmed inwards all 49 continental states. In Puerto Rico, the mongoose is the wild animals reservoir.
Equine Disease Quarterly is funded past times underwriters at Lloyd’s, London, brokers together with their Kentucky agents.
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