County hosting low-cost rabies clinics
OXFORD COUNTY - In celebration of World Rabies Day, Oxford Public Health is hosting a series of low-cost rabies clinics.
World Rabies Day is Sunday and is meant to serve as a reminder to vaccinate your pets, even if they are inside animals.
Program Supervisor of Health Protection Elaine Reddick says throughout the world a lot of people still suffer from rabies.
"55 thousand people a year die from rabies. 60 percent of those are children. Most of this is occurring now in Asia and Africa where they don't have the kind of intervention that we are lucky to have access to here in Ontario."
Reddick says in Ontario we don't see a lot of human or animal rabies.
"The Ministry of Natural Resources have been vaccinated wildlife since the 90's actually and they do that by dropping vaccine and bait and foxes and skunks and those sorts of animals will eat that and then be vaccinated and that has really lowered the number of rabies cases in Ontario in animals."
She does say however that bats cannot be vaccinated so while you may have an indoor pet and think they don't need to be vaccinated because they don't go outside, bats can get inside and still infect your pet.
Public Health will be offering low-cost rabies clinics across the County Saturday.
"These are for pets that don't get regular care. For example if you have a dog or cat and you take them to the vet regularly like I do then a rabies vaccine is part of what you probably get that's offered to them but some people -- for a number of reasons -- don't regularly attend the vet with their animal however the law still requires that their animal be vaccinated."
For a list of low-cost rabies clinic locations follow the link
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