Showing posts with label rabies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rabies. Show all posts
Monday, January 18, 2016

The Population Dynamics of Distemper in Wildlife

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Canine distemper is the most common and population-limiting of the viral diseases commonly found in wildlife. It often sweeps through w...
Thursday, January 29, 2015

A Short History of Vaccines

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The idea of vaccinations to prevent disease dates back to 1796. In that year Edward Jenner, a British physician, noted that dairymaids wh...
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Tuesday, June 04, 2013

Raccoons, Rabies & Decapitation

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Raccoon head being tested for rabies in Richmond, Virginia.   Original post from 2005.   The definitive test for rabies in a wild anim...
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Tuesday, June 05, 2012

Red Fox as Weapons of Mouse Destruction

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If you use the slightest bit of common sense, the chance of getting rabies from a raccoon, fox, possum, skunk or groundhog is very low, ...
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

The Nonsense of "Pull Dogs"

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In The Working Jack Russell Terrier Eddie Chapman writes: "Something that makes my blood boil is when I hear terrier men talk abou...
Friday, April 09, 2010

Chinese Rabies Vaccine Does Not Work

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Great. Simcere says rabies shot lacked active ingredient .
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Monday, December 28, 2009

Bo Obama Does Not Have Rabies

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Bo Obama does not have rabies , but that hardly matters to the law, which is why he is back at the White House this Christmas vacation, even...
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Thursday, September 10, 2009

American Terrier Work: Just Do It

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This post is recycled from 2005 . I started hunting alone, with a dog that was too big, and with a laughable set of tools. I didn ’t own a ...
Thursday, June 25, 2009

The Cull of the Wild

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This book set out the tenets of wildlife management still in use today. This post is reprinted from this blog circa June, 2005 D...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

The High Cost of Animal Rights Rhetoric

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A recycled post from this blog circa February 2005. What would happen if hunting and trapping were eliminated? Well, your taxes would go up,...
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Monday, March 30, 2009

A Rabid Bobcat Walks Into a Bar ...

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From The Arizona Republic : COTTONWOOD - A bobcat walked into a roadside bar in Cottonwood. What happened next was not a joke but "pand...
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

A Miracle Rabies Test? Maybe Not.

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Bernie Madoff was a very good con man ($50 billion up in smoke), and it looks like R. Allen Stanford wasn't so bad either -- it appears...
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

The Epidemiology of Rabies in the U.S.

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In any given year about 7,500 cases of rabies in nonhuman animals are reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Wild anim...
Friday, August 01, 2008

Sharing Death and Disease Across Species

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A zoonotic disease is a disease that originates in wildlife and which has a reservoir in a wild population of animals, but which leaps the...
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Saturday, July 26, 2008

American Genius and Rabies

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From the Associated Press : Authorities say a Levy County man accidentally shot his wife while trying to hit a fox that had attacked her. ...
Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Rabies Cases Close to Home

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News reports are that two northern Virginia women are undergoing rabies treatment after being bitten by rabid foxes this month. One woman ...
Tuesday, March 18, 2008

CDC Says U.S. is Free of Canine Rabies? Not so!

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Old Yeller in 5 seconds. Virginia had 730 reported rabies cases last year -- the highest number since 1982 . Most of the rabid animals were...
Thursday, November 08, 2007

Opossums and Rabies

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Any mammal can get rabies , but of course a possum is not a mammal is not an ordinary mammal; it's a marsupial. So can a possum get rab...
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Friday, September 14, 2007

Nannying Idiots Continue to Ignore Real Problems

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I got an email tonight from Char (Pearl's first mom and breeder) letting me know that a woman in the U.K. has been jailed for violating...
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Thursday, September 06, 2007

Thanks for the Fear J.R.

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J.R.' Absher's blog got my attention this morning with his post that an aggressive rabid bear had been shot in Maryland. It was at...
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