Cat bites shelter worker. What to do?
If a shelter worker is bitten by a domestic cat who is healthy and that cat is unknown to shelter management the question is what to do next and it is either (1) euthanasia or (2) ten-day observation....
View ArticleCan You Sue Animal Control If You Are Bitten by A Rabid Cat?
If your child is bitten by a rabid cat can you sue the local animal control services for a failure to protect your child from that cat? You’ll find out in due course if you are able to follow a …...
View ArticleIs it too dangerous to feed feral cats in America?
Is it too dangerous to feed feral cats in America? A story from the Gasconade County Republican newspaper tells me that it is too dangerous to feed feral cats unless you take precautions. However, I’m...
View ArticleUK is rabies free but after a no-deal Brexit UK citizens will have to pay for...
After a no-deal Brexit, if a UK citizen wants to take their pet to continental Europe i.e. within the European Union they will need a rabies vaccination and a health certificate which would cost around...
View ArticleMoroccan cat rabies case reminds us prompt PEP (Post Exposure Prophylaxis)...
Prophylaxis: treatment given or action taken to prevent disease – in this case a course of rabies jabs after exposure to the disease. You can treat a bite from a rabid animal with a course of...
View ArticleThe final picture of a man who died of rabies after being bitten by a rabid...
This is the final picture of a British man with duel nationality who was bitten by a stray cat in Morocco. His name is Omar Zouhri. The cat happened to be infected with rabies and therefore he became...
View ArticleCharge for one injection of rabies immune globulin was $46,422 after cat...
This is the extraordinary story of a single injection of rabies immune globulin costing $46,422. In fact the total bill for this woman who was bitten by a feral cat in Miami-Dade County, Florida was...
View ArticleCentral Florida, USA; you’ve got to keep your domestic cats under direct...
Florida: Is the fear of rabies transmitted to domestic cats going to drive cat owners to keeping their cats under direct supervision or keep them inside? There’s a report in the UK online news media...
View ArticleMan with tiny cat scratches abandons hospital ER after learning rabies jabs...
Charlotte, North Carolina, USA as reported by WWAY3: Shyam Patil was scratched by a stray cat. You can see in the photograph that they were tiny scratches but he was advised by his doctor to get a...
View ArticleA cat was pepper sprayed in Alpharetta by police officers
It was all captured on body camera footage and a lot of viewers are weighing in on it. In the footage you can hear the conversation that the officers were having when they decided how to take that cat...
View ArticleFlorida Department Of Health guidelines for rabies precautions – comment
Click Orlando.com report that an adopted stray cat tested positive for rabies on Merritt Island. This prompted a 60 day rabies alert in the area. As a consequence, Florida Department Of Health (FDOH)...
View ArticleFeral cat couldn’t be tested for rabies because the victim shot the cat in...
Grand Island, Nebraska, USA: a man, Dennis Stoltenberg, was attacked by a feral cat on his property last week. The circumstances of the attack have not been reported. We do know, however, that the cat...
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