News reports are that two northern Virginia women are undergoing rabies treatment after being bitten by rabid foxes this month.
One woman was mowing her lawn in Fredericksburg when a fox latched onto her ankle. The second woman was in Arlington, where I live, when she was bitten while taking out the trash.
Both of the fox bites were from Gray Fox, and both fox were captured and confirmed as having rabies.
There were 438 confirmed cases of animal rabies in Virginia and eight confirmed cases in Arlington between January and July of last year, state records show.
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