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Fox Hunt Mapped To
Stamp Out Rabiee
Rabid gray foxes have the Virglnia hunt country ready to forego the sport and settle for wholesale extermination of their favorite -game. Five reported cases of rabies - among foxes in adjoining Fauquier County caused the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors to appoint a committee recently to consider the problem. “We're afraid we might have another epidemic on our hands as i i 2.” said County Sanitarian Horace M. Hallett, a memebr of the new committee. “That was awful. We lost a lot of- livestock and had to treat 15 persons who were infected. “We hope to get all the counties adjoining Loudoun, as far as Jefferson County, W. Va. to cooperate in a big drive next January, February and March to kill as mam foxes as we can We got almost 600 in 1952 and that ended the threat for a while. Masters of three Virginia hunts will be Invited to participate in the drive' Newell J. Ward, Jr., master of the Middleburg Hunt, has already agreed to participate. “We ll do what we did in 1952. >et o*it traps for them and send our. <logs out on calls fro™ county health people," W ard said. “The dogs are inoculated twice a year, so we’re not worried about them but all of us are concerned about, this rabies thing, it s a threat to human life and that transcends our love of the sport.
Hallett and Ward both stressed the necessity for getting all Counties in the area to cooperate.
A May 26 meeting will be held in Ward’s office in Middleburg to map the winter campaign and dis. cuss participation by other counties.
(Editor's Note—The Rappahannock News has reported a number of cases of rabies in the county over a period of several years and has made an effort to - / arouse the people of the county to the • seriousness of the situation).
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