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— 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 Ohio Department of ...
The department explained rabies could be of concern to people who received "a bite or scratch" from a bat — or even had "any physical contact" with the animal. "Bats have very small teeth ...
Rabies is a disease that affects the nervous system of humans and other mammals, health officials said. “People get rabies from the bite of an animal infected with the rabies virus (a rabid animal).
[22] [23] In Latin America, vampire bats are the primary reservoir of the rabies virus, and in Peru, for instance, researchers have calculated that over 500 cattle per year die of bat-transmitted rabies. [24] Vampire bats have been extinct in the United States for thousands of years (a situation that may reverse due to climate change, as the ...
In 2018, a man died of rabies after contracting the virus from a cat in Morocco. [113] A rabies-like lyssavirus, called European bat lyssavirus 2, was identified in bats in 2003. [107] In 2002, there was a fatal case in a bat handler involving infection with European bat lyssavirus 2; infection was probably acquired from a bite from a bat in ...
Bat rabies in North America appears to have been present since 1281 AD (95% confidence interval: 906–1577 AD). [43] The rabies virus appears to have undergone an evolutionary shift in hosts from Chiroptera to a species of Carnivora (i.e. raccoon or skunk) as a result of an homologous recombination event that occurred hundreds of years ago. [44]
Be sure dogs and cats are updated on rabies vaccinations. ... For more information about rabies and bats, contact Tazewell County Animal Control at 309-925-3370. ... The Today Show.
Other sources of rabies in humans include bats, [45] [46] monkeys, raccoons, foxes, skunks, cattle, wolves, coyotes, cats, and mongooses (normally either the small Asian mongoose or the yellow mongoose). [47] Rabies may also spread through exposure to infected bears, domestic farm animals, groundhogs, weasels, and other wild carnivorans.