The U.S. Department of Agriculture has begun scattering millions of packets of oral rabies vaccine from helicopters and planes over 13 states from Maine to Alabama.
State and local pet vaccination laws mean the virus is mostly spread by wildlife in the U.S.
A bite from an animal infected with any variant can make any other mammal sick. Scratches occasionally do so, since animals lick their paws. Some scientists have speculated that bats could be vaccinated during hibernation, perhaps with a fine mist or with a gel that could be transferred from bat to bat, Chipman said. Early research is testing the idea in vampire bats, which live in Mexico and Central and South America and might spread such a vaccine within a colony by grooming each other.was caught less than 24 hours after the first report in April. By then, about a half-dozen people had reported bites or nips to U.S.
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