5th raccoon with rabies found in Cayuga.

[Sharon]

10 cases in Hamilton in 3 weeks
Be careful there folks . Don't be touching any dead carcasses. More of a worry for humans than a vaccinated dog.

http://www.pressreader.com/canada/th...67306/TextView

[spinster]

Two new cases of raccoon rabies found in Hamilton, bringing outbreak to 12
raccoon rabies
The Canadian Press
Published Thursday, January 7, 2016 1:17PM EST

HAMILTON - Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry says there are two new cases of raccoon rabies in Hamilton, bringing the total to 12 in the city.

Chris Davies, head of wildlife research with the ministry, says the cases were officially diagnosed on Tuesday.

He says the ministry has dropped about 220,000 raccoon baits in the area in a bid to quash the outbreak...

More: http://london.ctvnews.ca/two-new-cas...o-12-1.2727766

[MikePal]

I see they have also found the Arctic Fox strain of rabies in Perth County....

Animals on a farm in Perth County are under confinement after a calf on that farm tested positive for rabies according to the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs.

The ministry is not naming the farm or releasing its address for reasons of confidentiality, but assures residents of southern Ontario that there is no risk to food safety.

The article begs the question, do those vaccine baits takes care of both strains ?

The Arctic fox strain of rabies that was found in the calf was last seen in Ontario in 2012, and is different from the strain of rabies that has been identified in raccoons in Hamilton.


"Between 1958 and 1990, we had 22,000 rabid red foxes in Ontario," Anderson said. "We beat it back, and the last known pocket of Arctic fox variant rabies was actually in that Perth district."
"What likely happened is we pushed it down below the level of detection, but there may have still been a couple of pockets where the virus was still circulating in the wildlife population and only now has spilled back over into the domestic animal population."
She said that the Ministry of Natural Resources will begin dropping vaccinated bait in the Perth area in the spring, in order to reduce the number of undetected cases of rabies among wild fox and skunk populations.

read more : http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/calf-in-perth-county-ont-tests-positive-for-arctic-fox-rabies-1.3393693