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Admire wild animals from afar. Don’t attempt to capture or pick up a sick or overly friendly animal. Such - animals may very likely be rabid. Call your Animal Control Officer for '
advice. Wild animals should not be kept as pets.
If you or your children are bitten, wash off the wound immediately with soap and water and contact • your physician. . .
Any dog or cat (vaccinated or unvaccinated) that bites a person must be confined for 10 days’ observation. If symptoms of rabies^ develop, the animal should be humanely euthanized and tested or, if the animal dies, its head should be immediately submitted for testing.
Dogs or cats currently immunized against rabies which are exposed to a proven or suspected rabid animal should receive an immediate booster dose of rabies vaccine from a licensed veterinarian and be confined properly for 90 days.
Any fox, skunk, raccoon or bat that bites a person must be considered rabid unless proven otherwise by laboratory testing.
Since rabies infection has a long incubation period (frequently up to eight weeks for exposure to arms or legs), preventive treatment consists of immunization. Rabies in humans is almost always fatal.
Questions concerning rabies and possible exposure to rabid animals should be addressed to the Director, Rappahannock-Rapidan Health District. Offices are open weekdays 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Telephone numbers for the respective offices are as follows: Rappahannock 675-3516; Culpeper 825-1300; Fauquier 3474512; Madison 948-5481; and Orange 672-1291.
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