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Article: BE CAREFUL - RABIES HAS REACHED THE OUTER BANKS.(LOCAL)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
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- September 24, 1997
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Byline: LANE DeGREGORY, STAFF WRITER
A rabid raccoon trapped in Kitty Hawk on Friday marked the second confirmed case of rabies in Dare County in a week.
The outbreak that began inland almost seven years ago now has spread even to the isolated Outer Banks - as state officials say they knew it eventually would.
``That's indicative that the epidemic may have rolled into your area,'' North Carolina Public Health Veterinarian Lee Hunter said from his Raleigh office Tuesday.
``It means that people need to understand Dare County may be in the beginning of an epidemic with a disease that is fatal - and that has no cure.
``You're one ...