Can You Get Rabies From A Dead Animal

Dr. Kari Reiber

Last month's article stressed the importance of staying abroad from wildlife and vaccinating domestic animals against rabies. Since many of the calls nosotros receive business organization bats, guidelines were provided on how to foreclose bats from entering your home. More detailed information is available on the Centers for Affliction Control and New York State Department of Health websites. This commodity is once again about rabies and answers some of the more oft asked questions nosotros receive from the public.

At that place is a raccoon in my neighborhood; what should I do?

Raccoons, foxes and skunks are rabies vector species and normally nocturnal; if you see one hanging around during the solar day, it could exist sick or injured. Best avoid it and proceed your pets inside until it goes away. Notify the police if information technology behaves aggressively. Possums practice not carry rabies. If you find one on your property in that location is no need for concern.

I plant a dead fox in my garage; what do I do?

Dead animals cannot transmit rabies. All the same, if y'all find a dead rabies vector species (raccoon, fox, skunk or bat), the creature should be tested. Phone call the Section of Wellness; we will collect it and make sure no one was exposed if it tests positive.

My dog killed a squirrel; is my dog at chance for rabies?

Squirrels don't interact with rabies vector species. Your canis familiaris is non at chance, but y'all should make sure it's not injured.

My canis familiaris killed a woodchuck; what practice I do?

Woodchucks are not a vector species only tin get rabies. If upwardly to date on vaccinations your dog may demand a booster shot. If the dog is not vaccinated, don't dispose of the woodchuck; it needs to be tested.

I killed a woodchuck with a shovel and got spattered with claret; am I at hazard?

Not unless you were spattered with saliva or brain affair. Blood is not a vehicle for rabies.

My true cat died foaming at the oral fissure and behaving aggressively; should I exist concerned almost rabies?

Yes, and your cat should be tested. Go along in mind information technology could also have been poisoned or died of some other neurologic affliction. If it tests positive for rabies, you volition need shots.

There is a live bat in my firm; what practice I do?

Don't panic; effort to proceed the bat abroad from areas where people slumber. If you are certain in that location was no contact between the bat and any person or domestic animal inside the business firm, you lot can release the bat. If you find a live bat in a sleeping room with a sleeping person, the person may have been exposed or bitten without knowing information technology. Someday in that location is possible contact betwixt a bat and a person or pet inside a home, the bat should exist trapped and tested for rabies to avoid unnecessary vaccinations. Visit www.DutchessNY.gov/CatchABatVideo to view a video about how to catch a bat. The Centers for Disease Command and Prevention also explains how to catch a bat: http://www.cdc.gov/rabies/bats/contact/capture.html

A bat bit me; what practice I practice?

The bat needs to be tested. If positive, you demand shots; if negative, you lot are non at risk. If the bat escapes and can't be tested, y'all demand shots. Never handle or feed a alive bat.

A domestic dog bit me; what do I do?

Launder the wound and phone call the Department of Health for help. You may need medical care for your injury. If the dog escapes, tell u.s. what it looked like and where the incident occurred; if possible, take a motion picture of the domestic dog and then we can locate it. If the animal is owned, go the owner'southward contact information so we can follow up. We volition make sure the brute is isolated and closely observed for a period of 10 days. This observation catamenia is necessary to plant whether or non the biting animal has rabies in a communicable course. If the domestic dog is salubrious at the end of that time period, there is no demand for business organization.

My canis familiaris (true cat) has wounds from a fight with an unknown beast; what should I do?

Apply gloves when examining information technology. If up to appointment on shots, your pet may need a booster shot. If not currently vaccinated, your pet is at chance for rabies. Consult your veterinarian and the Department of Wellness. Bites from wild animals are a concern because the attacking beast can't exist observed and the x-solar day observation period may not use. Don't let domestic animals roam unsupervised, specially at night; it lessens the chances of an unwanted see.

My domestic dog licked my kid's face ii hours after getting vaccinated against rabies; is my kid at risk?

No. There is no chance of rabies unless there is directly contact betwixt the saliva of an infected animate being and an open wound.

For assist, please call the Section of Wellness at 845-486-3404 during business hours, or 845-431-6465 later on hours.

Dr. Kari Reiber is the health commissioner for the Dutchess County Department of Health.

Source: https://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/news/health/2015/08/07/rabies-bats-prevention-commissioners-corner/31280703/

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