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The Ohio State Buckeyes baseball team is the college baseball team of Ohio State University. The program, founded in 1881, was the first athletic team in Ohio State history. Bill Davis Stadium in Columbus, Ohio , has been the home field of the program since 1997.
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).
— 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 ...
Be sure dogs and cats are updated on rabies vaccinations. Do not handle wild or domestic animals that have been trapped. Contact TCAC for assistance. ... For more information about rabies and bats ...
In the United States, domestic cats are the most commonly reported rabid animal. [17] In the United States, as of 2008, between 200 and 300 cases are reported annually; [18] in 2017, 276 cats with rabies were reported. [19] As of 2010, in every year since 1990, reported cases of rabies in cats outnumbered cases of rabies in dogs. [17]
Most bats do not have rabies; however, most recent human rabies deaths have been due to a strain of rabies associated with this species. [6] In 2015, a Wyoming woman woke up to a bat on her shoulder later to be identified as a silver-haired bat. She presented to the emergency department several weeks later with ataxia, dysphagia, and weakness.
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 ...
A rabies-like lyssavirus, called European bat lyssavirus 2, was identified in bats in 2003. [90] 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 Scotland. [76] [90]