The disease peaked in 1993 with 2,747 rabid animals.
Before Pasteur's vaccine was created, bites from rabid animals were treated by cauterizing the wound; rabies almost always developed anyway.
Rabid animals were epidemic in New York State in the early 1990s, Mr. Rudd of the rabies lab said.
My advice is simple: avoid travel agents, tour groups and rabid animals, embrace the unexpected and enjoy the unplanned.
In Westchester County, the health department has issued three warnings about rabid animals this summer after concerns that residents may have come into contact with them.
Overshadowed by a huge statue of the she-wolf that suckled them, the adult Romulus and Remus fight to the death like a pair of rabid animals.
(The Pro-MED Web site, which tracks emerging diseases, recently posted articles from local American papers describing 16 attacks by rabid animals in just the month of June).
This course traces convergences between epidemic and other metaxenic (vector-borne) diseases, the populations they "plague," and species, such as pesky mosquitos, and rabid animals that rapidly transforming viruses, connections increasingly define perceptions of racial, ethnic, and class difference.
In a letter in April 2001, the township's Health Department accused her of feeding both wild and stray cats and told her to stop the practice because it was attracting potentially rabid animals harmful to children and pets.
They were brilliant today, they were like rabid animals at times the way they were going into it, and sometimes you lose composure away from home.
In my family, rabid animals remain on the floor.
