Rabies
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Rabies on the rise in Anne Arundel Co.
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Rabies is on the rise in Anne Arundel County, The Capital Gazette reports. A total of 13 wild animals have tested positive for the disease this year.
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Anne Arundel County rabies cases spiking this year
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Rabies cases in animals across Anne Arundel County are spiking in 2013, with nearly double the number of cases reported so far this year compared to the first five months of 2012.
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Stafford County rabid cat: Authorities search for 6 strays
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The sheriff's office said stray cats had been in the same area where another cat was captured after it scratched two women on March 24. That cat was euthanized after it showed symptoms of being rabid.
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23 urged to get rabies shot after transplant death
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Public health agencies in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland and North Carolina began searching at least a week ago for people who may have been exposed.
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Rabies case: Others who had contact with disease sought
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Public and military health officials say they're trying to identify people in at least five states who had close contact with an organ donor who died of rabies or with the organ recipients because they might require treatment.
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Maryland rabies cases linked to transplant from infected man
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Four people received donated organs from a man unknowingly infected with rabies, leading to a rare human death more than a year later that has authorities scrambling to treat the other three patients, federal health officials said Friday.
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Maryland resident dies of rabies
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A Maryland resident has died of rabies for the first time in more than 35 years.
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Fourth animal tests positive for rabies in Fairfax Co.
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A fox tested positive for rabies Tuesday, making it the fourth animal to test positive for the virus in Fairfax County in September.
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Possible rabies exposure at Baltimore Ravens game
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Health officials say a bat reportedly landed on a person sitting in the 500 section of the M&T Bank Stadium on Friday, August 17 during the 8 p.m. game against the Detroit Lions. The bat was brushed off and flew away before a rabies test was possible.
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Anne Arundel County vaccinates against rabies by helicopter
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Anne Arundel County health officials are taking to the air to vaccinate raccoons for rabies.
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Rabid cat bites two people
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Two people were bitten by a cat who subsequently tested positive for rabies, police said.
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