5th raccoon with rabies found in Cayuga.

The province is tripling its vaccine blitz of the Hamilton area after a fifth raccoon was found to have rabies.

http://www.thespec.com/news-story/61...hamilton-area/

Has the ministry not been dropping baits for the past 10 years??

The ministry had stopped dropping baits because they felt they had eliminated this particular strain. No positive tests in the past 10 years. However that strain remains prevelant in New York state and migration from there is suspected.

Before I could get to him, my terrier rolled in a dead racoon this week . Assuming up to date rabies shots are sufficient.

edited for spelling

Hope so Sharon.

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Before I could get to him, my terrier rolled in a dead racoon this week . Assumming up to date rabies shots are sufficient.

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pretty much the only thing you can do anyways for your dog.
the other question is how much of it is on your dog and if it could be transmitted; e.g. by petting your dog
rabies is fortunately an enveloped virus and has a rather short survival time outside a mammal's body:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3125654
nonetheless, it's something to think about:
20ºC & 37ºC: rabies virus in salavia total inactivation after 96 hours, at 5ºC it took 144h

too late now :) If I stop posting you'll know. :)

I think I'm safe as the raccoon looked VERY dead/rotting. Very interesting link.

Source: http://london.ctvnews.ca/four-new-ra...o-10-1.2711853

Four new raccoon rabies cases found in Hamilton, bringing outbreak total to 10
The Canadian Press
Published Wednesday, December 23, 2015 12:19PM EST

HAMILTON - The city says four new raccoon rabies cases have been found in Hamilton, bringing the total to 10 found in the area over the past three weeks.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry has been dropping vaccine baits over a large swath of land in and around Hamilton to prevent its spread...

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The ministry had stopped dropping baits because they felt they had eliminated this particular strain. No positive tests in the past 10 years. However that strain remains prevelant in New York state and migration from there is suspected.

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Thats not true , the baiting has been ongoing and has never stopped , what did stop was proper monitoring and testing

I was under the impression certain areas were still being baited, potential hotspots. I know for a fact an area I use to live stopped baiting for close to 10 years.