viral rabies

[artie]

https://globalnews.ca/news/5498318/b-c-rabies-death/

Learn something new every day. Never heard of viral rabies before. The man was not bitten or scratched by the bat. But did contact viral rabies.

[urban rednek]

All rabies cases are reported and tracked to prevent a large scale outbreak. Useful information on these sites.
Canadian Food Inspection Agency site with archives back to 1998:
http://www.inspection.gc.ca/animals/.../1356157139999

Government of Canada site, which will need to be updated after this case in BC:
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-heal...veillance.html

From the Government of Canada site:

Number of cases of rabies in Canada

Human rabies is rare in Canada. This is largely due to excellent prevention and control programs.

Since reporting began in 1924, a total of 25 people in six provinces have died of rabies in Canada:

Quebec (12)
Ontario (7)
Alberta (2)
Saskatchewan (2)
Nova Scotia (1)
British Columbia (1)

The most recent cases involved single deaths in:

Ontario in 2012 (exposure was outside of Canada)
Alberta in 2007 (exposure was in Canada to a rabid bat)
British Columbia in 2003 (exposure was in Canada to a rabid bat)
Quebec in 2000 (exposure was in Canada to a rabid bat)

Rabies is established in certain populations of Canadian wildlife. These can spillover to domestic (livestock and pet) animals. Since 2000, the number of reported rabies-positive animals has declined partly because of control programs. There were:

670 rabies-positive animals reported in 2000
116 rabies-positive animals reported in 2013
92 rabies-positive animals reported in 2014
151 rabies-positive animals reported in 2015
392 rabies-positive animals reported in 2016Footnote *

Between 2014 and 2016, the breakdown of confirmed rabies cases in animals, by group, was:

65% in terrestrial (land) wildlife, of which
49% were from raccoons
39% skunks
11% red and arctic fox
28% in bats
3% in livestock
cows accounted for 61% of all livestock with rabies
4% in pets (dogs and cats)

In recent years, reported rabies infections have been found primarily in:

bats in many regions of the country
foxes in the North (Quebec, Nunavut, Northwest Territories)
skunks in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario
raccoons in the east (Ontario, with some cases in New Brunswick and Quebec)

Too bad about the guy in BC, sounds like they did not diagnose in time for treatment.

[alacringa]

Originally Posted by artie

https://globalnews.ca/news/5498318/b-c-rabies-death/

Learn something new every day. Never heard of viral rabies before. The man was not bitten or scratched by the bat. But did contact viral rabies.

Rabies is always viral.

[artie]

Originally Posted by alacringa

Rabies is always viral.

So could rabies it be like the hantavirus where you can be infected from cleaning mice droppings. I wonder if you can get rabies from cleaning up bat droppings or bat houses. Reason I wonder is years ago I was taking a roof off of an old shed and found a dead bat and maybe should have been more careful. Maybe I was lucky then.

[alacringa]

Originally Posted by artie

So could rabies it be like the hantavirus where you can be infected from cleaning mice droppings. I wonder if you can get rabies from cleaning up bat droppings or bat houses. Reason I wonder is years ago I was taking a roof off of an old shed and found a dead bat and maybe should have been more careful. Maybe I was lucky then.

Almost always through contact with saliva.

[ghostguy6]

Other media sources are claiming that the man swatted at the bat and got scratched.

[Grizzly Adams]

Opened the barn door a couple of weeks ago, this guy fell and hit me on the shoulder. Just a glancing blow and very dozy. I'm not worried, but goes to show, can happen any time or place.


what kind of bat is it ?

Grizz

[Bigrib]

aww thats a little brown bat