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Rabies is well-known and rightly-feared, and anyone who owns animals is certainly familiar with the requirement for vaccination of dogs against the universally fatal disease.
But, the recent publicity surrounding a dramatic increase in the disease in cats has many people - and public officials — wondering why there is such an urgency about the problem. What is the sudden concern about rabid cats?
Dr. John Einarson, chief of the state health department for Planning District 9, explained that the department’s concern is two-fold.
First, the current outbreak, which has primarily involved raccoons and skunks since it was first reported in 1981, is spreading.
Second, since cats are more frequently let outside unleashed and unsupervised, they wander more than dogs. They are nightprowling creatures, and often forage in the same places (such
and skunks.
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