From 1999 to 2006, 132 cases of raccoon rabies, caused by the raccoon variant of rabies virus, were confirmed in eastern Ontario, Canada. Trap-vaccinate-release (TVR) and point infection control (PIC) programs were implemented to control the disease; 43,014 raccoons (Procyon lotor) were vaccinated against rabies by injection (Imrab®3) during that period. Two vaccinated raccoons were diagnosed with rabies at 6 mo and at 2 wk postvaccination. One may have been due to a vaccination failure. The other was likely due to the animal being in the late stages of incubation for rabies at the time of vaccination. This information will be useful to wildlife rehabilitators and agencies that hold raccoons in captivity in that a vaccinated raccoon is not necessarily immune to rabies.
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1 April 2007
Rabies in Vaccinated Raccoons from Ontario, Canada
Rick Rosatte,
Dennis Donovan,
Mike Allan,
Laura Bruce,
Tore Buchanan,
Kirk Sobey,
Chris Davies,
Alex Wandeler,
Frances Muldoon
Journal of Wildlife Diseases
Vol. 43 • No. 2
April 2007
Vol. 43 • No. 2
April 2007
Procyon lotor
rabid raccoon
rabies
raccoon
vaccination