Rabies in West Virginia

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Rabies in West Virginia

• Review of 2004 Data

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74 Positive Animals in 2004

• 45 RACCOONS
• 10 SKUNKS
• 4 FOXES
• 1 GROUNDHOG
• 4 BATS (BAT STRAIN)

• 6 CATS
• 2 HORSES
• 1 DOG
• 1 COW

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10 POSITIVE ANIMALSY-T-D 4/30/05

• 5 RACCOONS
• 2 SKUNKS
• 1 LAMB

• 2 CATS

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What can we all do to help?

• Active surveillance counties can submit road
  kill and odd behavior surveillance animal
  specimens
  
• Everyone can report these animals to the LHD or
  animal control officers or USDA
  

HAVE YOUR PETS VACCINATED!!!
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RABIES NEWS IN 2004

• A teenager in Wisconsin has apparently recovered
  from rabies. This is the first documented
  recovery from clinical rabies by a patient who
  had not received either pre- or post-exposure
  prophylaxis for rabies. She had been bitten by a
  bat.
• Several people died after receiving organ
  transplants in several south/southwestern states.
  It was later found that donor had rabies

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RABIES NEWS IN 2004

• CDC has developed an internet-based mapping
  application as a surveillance tool to help better
  define the epizootic fronts of raccoon rabies in
  the eastern US
• WV data is going into this data base monthly
• Currently this application serves as a
  surveillance tool. Future plans call for
  expansion with inclusion of all states
  participating in rabies surveillance

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ACTIVE SURVEILLANCE COUNTIES

• Active surveillance seems to be dropping
• During the first quarter of 2005, only 94
  surveillance animals were submitted
  
• During the same period in 2004, 226 specimens
  were tested
  
• How can we get MORE specimens?

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ACTIVE SURVEILLANCE COUNTIES

• Do you know that each of the active surveillance
  counties can be paid for specimen and data
  collection and brain stem extractions?
  
• Specimens are needed especially from the
  counties along the western edge of the ORV
  barrier

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ACTIVE SURREILLANCE COUNTIES

• Boone
• Braxton
• Brooke
• Calhoun
• Clay
• Doddridge
• Fayette
• Gilmer
• Hancock
• Harrison
• Kanawha
• Lewis
• Logan
• Marshall
• McDowell

• Mercer
• Mingo
• Nicholas
• Ohio
• Pleasants
• Raleigh
• Ritchie
• Roane
• Tyler
• Webster
• Wetzel
• Wirt
• Wood
• Wyoming

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2004 Bait Drop Area
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What you can do to help

• John Houben and Andy Moore from USDA are here to
  talk to us about active surveillance
  
• Be sure to include GIS data on ALL samples. It
  is important to have accurate coordinates on
  negative as well as positive specimens
  
• We want to be able to plot both negative and
  positive data. BOTH ARE IMPORTANT.

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• If we can help, or answer questions, give us a
  call
  
• 304-558-5358
• 1-800-423-1271
• Sharon Hill, Zoonotic Epidemiologist
• Susan Stowers, Data Analyst II