- Health authorities have found 2 more puppies given away
at a Wal-Mart/Jack in the Box parking lot in Decatur, in Wise County,
[Texas],
19 Nov 2000, after another puppy from the litter tested positive for
rabies.
Texas Department of Health (TDH) officials continue to look for people
who owned or were given other puppies from the same litter. The parking
lot is located adjacent to U.S. Highway 287 in Decatur.
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- TDH officials believe the rabid puppy was exposed to
a rabid skunk before being given to a resident of adjacent Montague County.
The 2 puppies that were given to one family in Rhome in Wise County are
now isolated and will be under observation for 90 days for rabies. Each
of these 2 puppies has received the first of 3 rabies shots. Other puppies
in the litter also could have been exposed to rabies and could spread the
deadly virus.
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- Anyone who has information about the puppies' new or
original owners should contact Monty Fitzgerald, City of Decatur animal
control officer, at 940-627-7888; or Jan Buck, zoonosis control technician
with TDH's regional office in Arlington, at 817-264-4920. The Wise County
Messenger newspaper has a photo of the 2 recently found puppies on its
Web site at www.wcmessenger.com.
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- Rabies is most often transmitted by bites, but
transmission
can occur in other ways that allow the saliva from an infected animal to
enter a person's body. A series of post-exposure shots, if given in time,
can prevent rabies from developing. Once symptoms develop, rabies is
almost
always fatal.
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- For more information contact Jan Buck, TDH Zoonosis
Control
Technician, Arlington, at 817-264-4920; or Emily Palmer, TDH Office of
Communications, Austin, at 512-458-7400.
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- Laura E. Robinson, DVM, MS
- Zoonosis Control Veterinarian
- Texas Department of Health - Region 11
- 601 W. Sesame Drive
- Harlingen, Texas 78550
- <Laura.Robinson@tdh.state.tx.us
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