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Article: Update: raccoon rabies epizootic - United States, 1996.
- Article from:
- MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
- Article date:
- January 3, 1997
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Since 1960, rabies has been reported more frequently in wild animals than in domestic animals in the United States. In 1995, wildlife rabies accounted for 92% of animal-rabies cases reported to CDC; approximately 50% of these cases (3964 of 7881 total cases) were associated with raccoons (1). This report describes the continuing spread of an epizootic of raccoon rabies in affected mid-Atlantic and north-eastern states and the spread into Ohio, indicating an increasing move westward despite geographic barriers.
New York. Rabies was first confirmed in raccoons in New York in May 1990; since then, 7851 cases of animal rabies (6637 in raccoons and 1214 in domestic ...