http://www.agriculture.state.pa.us/agriculture/cwp/view.asp?a=3&q=143349

Has anyone here ever seen a statistical history of
rabies for Tennessee, similar to the one above
for Pennsylvania ?

Check out how the number of cases for domestic
dogs have evolved.

Bill Zardus


http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WildlifeCareSupport/message/11964

--- In WildlifeCareSupport@yahoogroups.com,
"Lori Turpin" <lturpin@...> wrote:
>
>
> One of the groups I belong to..there is someone who
has a squirrel.who is having problem..she has a female
squirrel who is having a problem,she has discharge
that is white in nature and she is rubbing herself,
is it possible that she has a yeast infection, I only
do squirrels but I have never seen this..all my
squirrels are babies so I have never seen this..or
is because she coming into heat?

Lori in Canada

<snip>

Lori:

Have you ever heard an explanation of why squirrels
do not contract rabies ?

I never thought about it before today, but
if this disease was being transmitted via
squirrels, the area I live in would be much
more dangerous.

WRZ


http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/WildlifeCareSupport/message/11968
Squirrels can contract rabies, as this page of stats
from Pennsylvania shows:
http://www.agriculture.state.pa.us/agriculture/cwp/view.asp?a=3&q=143349

Maybe someone else can explain why it's so rare in
squirrels. Also, aren't groundhogs considered an
RVS in some states, and they're our largest
squirrels, right?

NOT a squirrel person, need educating, ;-)
cindy m.

Cindy Myers
Fallbrook CA

www.BatWorld.org
home.earthlink.net/~cmsquare


http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WildlifeCareSupport/message/11973

Re: squirrels and rabies?

Cindy:

That is a pretty interesting website you noticed.
It's interesting to see how the numbers for some
species have changed over the years.

Domestic dogs were a huge problem until 1948
and I wonder if other states would have similar
trends (?)

Our current rabies laws for dogs must go back
to the mid to late 1940's if the numbers in
in other states declined as rapidly as in PA.

Bill Zardus