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CHCAGO — The Chicago Department of Public Health issued a warning that attendees of a recent outdoor concert at the popular Salt Shed music venue may have been exposed to rabies-carrying bats.
Those who may have come into contact with a bat should "contact a healthcare provider as soon as possible to discuss rabies post-exposure prophylaxis," a treatment comprised of "a dose of human ...
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Rabies can be contracted in horses if they interact with rabid animals in their pasture, usually through being bitten (e.g. by vampire bats) [25] [23] on the muzzle or lower limbs. Signs include aggression, incoordination, head-pressing, circling, lameness, muscle tremors, convulsions, colic and fever. [34]
Cryptic rabies refers to instances where rabies occurs in an individual with no clear history of exposure to a rabies vector. Determining history of contact, usually via the bite of an infected animal, can be difficult if the patient is unconscious or incoherent by the time an attempt is made to collect patient history.
In the US, human rabies cases from exposure to bats more frequently come from other bat species. Of the twenty-four human rabies cases from bats from 1993 to 2000, seventeen cases (71%) were a rabies variant associated with the silver-haired bat (Lasionycteris noctivagans) while one case (4%) was associated with the rabies variant found in big ...
Jul. 19—PUTNAM CO. — The first bat from Putnam County since 2006 has tested positive for rabies. The Putnam County Health Department made the announcement after receiving confirmation from the ...
Furthermore, during that same time frame in Arizona 53.3% of all reported positive rabies cases were bats and 40% were identified as skunks. [67] Similarly, in 2015, Utah reported 22 positive cases of rabid bats. [68] [65] For the year of 2016 Utah identified 20 cases of rabies, all in bat species. [68]