Canada: Cat tests positive for rabies
According to officials in more than two decades it was the second domestic animal rabies case in the city of Hamilton, CTVNews Toronto reports said.
Hamilton Public Health Services and Canadian Food Inspection Agency are working together to determine if any human came in contact with the cat.
Anyone who had lost, abandoned, fed or come in contact with a male adult orange tabby cat in the rural area of Glanbrook between Jan. 22 and Jan. 30 was being asked by the agency to contact them to see if they needed a rabies post-exposure vaccine.
Last summer also a cat had tested positive for rabies.
Officials said both cases were related to likely reappearance of raccoon rabies in the area.
They said tests were in progress to determine if it resembled the strain seen in the wild animal population in Hamilton.
(Reporting by Asha Bajaj)
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