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Cat bites shelter worker. What to do?

If a shelter worker is bitten by a domestic cat who is healthy and that cat is unknown to shelter management the question is what to do next and it is either (1) euthanasia or (2) ten-day observation....

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Rabies alert because woman pets a stray cat

In countries where there is rabies, unless you are engaged in TNR work and know the cats and are an experienced feral cat handler, don’t pet stray or feral cats because they are unsocialised. They...

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Both CDC and ornithologists misrepresent rabies risk from cats in USA

CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) in the USA massages the statistics regarding rabid cats by describing feral cats as domestic cats. This is misleading the public and creating...

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Can You Sue Animal Control If You Are Bitten by A Rabid Cat?

If your child is bitten by a rabid cat can you sue the local animal control services for a failure to protect your child from that cat? You’ll find out in due course if you are able to follow a …...

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UK is rabies free but after a no-deal Brexit UK citizens will have to pay for...

After a no-deal Brexit, if a UK citizen wants to take their pet to continental Europe i.e. within the European Union they will need a rabies vaccination and a health certificate which would cost around...

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The final picture of a man who died of rabies after being bitten by a rabid...

This is the final picture of a British man with duel nationality who was bitten by a stray cat in Morocco. His name is Omar Zouhri. The cat happened to be infected with rabies and therefore he became...

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Charge for one injection of rabies immune globulin was $46,422 after cat...

This is the extraordinary story of a single injection of rabies immune globulin costing $46,422. In fact the total bill for this woman who was bitten by a feral cat in Miami-Dade County, Florida was...

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Central Florida, USA; you’ve got to keep your domestic cats under direct...

Florida: Is the fear of rabies transmitted to domestic cats going to drive cat owners to keeping their cats under direct supervision or keep them inside? There’s a report in the UK online news media...

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$1.3 billion spent annually in US on precautionary jabs for rabies?

There is a huge financial burden, at up to $1.3 billion, which goes with the presence of rabies in the US, either privately or through insurance for the jabs you get as a precaution after you have been...

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Reports of rabid cats in America are inflated because of a dislike of feral cats

This is a discussion article on America’s rabid cats. Some facts are clear from the data presented online while other facts are not. However, I noticed, while surfing the Internet this morning, that in...

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Man with tiny cat scratches abandons hospital ER after learning rabies jabs...

Charlotte, North Carolina, USA as reported by WWAY3: Shyam Patil was scratched by a stray cat. You can see in the photograph that they were tiny scratches but he was advised by his doctor to get a...

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Florida Department Of Health guidelines for rabies precautions – comment

Click Orlando.com report that an adopted stray cat tested positive for rabies on Merritt Island. This prompted a 60 day rabies alert in the area. As a consequence, Florida Department Of Health (FDOH)...

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