Re: Rabies

["Duncan Fletcher" <dfletche@gte.net>]

Possibly Kat, those numbers haven't been updated beyond 1990, but it was the
one 30 years ago that I questioned.

Duncan Fletcher
dfletche@gte.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Kathy Myers <kathy@nvolve.com>
To: ridecamp@endurance.net <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Date: Friday, March 06, 1998 10:38 AM
Subject: Re: Rabies


>> According to the Washington State Department of Health, there has only
been
>> a single reported case of rabies in horses since 1930, and that occurred
in
>> 1990. See http://198.187.0.42/Topics/rabies/rabsum.html.
>
>No Way.  There was a case of rabies reported in Equus
>or Horse + Rider in the last 4 years... that's how
>long I've been subscribing.  Unless it's the same
>horse...
>
>Saw a rabid skunk right here in downtown San Mateo.
>How did I know it was rabid?  Well, it was 1 in the
>afternoon, the skunk was weaving down the middle of
>the street completely ignoring the cars and it was
>not carrying a bottle.
>
>:) - kat myers
>in San Mateo (No.) Ca. with Magnum the TB ex-racer
>
>