People bit by rabid animals need to be vaccinated posthaste.
A fox roaming the grounds of the US Capitol was captured Tuesday after it bit nine people. The fox was euthanized on Wednesday so that officials could test it for rabies. The DC Department of Health confirmed that the fox tested positive for rabies, and that it would be contacting all the individuals bitten by the animal.
Cases of human rabies in the US are rare—there were only 25 documented cases from 2009 to 2018, according to the. Seven people acquired their infections outside the country, and all but two died from their disease. There were multiple sightings of the Capitol fox on Monday, along with the first social media posts about it on Twitter. Then the biting began. “Word came in of roughly six bites and/or nips,” a Capitol Police spokesperson told
over email. “[We] just learned people have seen foxes before, but this recent aggressive behavior is unusual,” the spokesperson added.Upon confirming the fox had rabies, DC officials also captured young foxes, called kits, in the area.
People bitten by a rabid animal require immediate post-exposure vaccinations. Rep. Ami Bera, D-Calif. was nipped in the leg on Monday while on his way to the office. Bera, a doctor, toldthat he’d started rabies prophylaxis treatment, which includes an initial round of seven shots and three rounds of follow-up shots in the next 14 days. “You don’t want to mess around with wild animal bites or anything like that,” Bera said.
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