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The State Health Commissioner wants Rappahannock’s supervisors to adopt a requirement for rabies vaccination of cats, whether or not the county can enforce the law.
That’s the message district sanitarian Charles Shepherd brought to the May board meeting. Health officials understand that such an ordinance will be “almost impossible” to enforce but enactment will be an affirmation that the Board of Supervisors recognizes rabies to be a serious problem, Mr. Shepherd said.
He described the vaccine as “one step in building a barrier between wildlife and domesticated animals and people.” According to Mr. Shepherd, this district is home to 25 percent of the rabid cats reported in the state. The figure is three times the number of rabid dogs discovered here to date, he said.
(According to figures released by Dr. C. M. G. Buttery, Virginia’s State Health Commissioner, since 1980 33 cats and three dogs have been positively diagnosed as rabid in the Commonwealth.)
Not only are rabid felines more
93.4%