Word: rabidity
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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More than 30 people in California's Imperial County were bitten last week by dogs, many of which were certainly rabid...
...were taking or had recently finished the tedious "Pasteur treatment"*-a series of 14 to 21 painful daily injections. Since Labor Day, 1,388 animals (mostly dogs, but including 187 cats) had been shot (more than 200 last week) on the suspicion that any animal at large might be rabid. That the suspicion was justified was shown in a check of 48 stray dogs picked up at Calexico in four days: 29 proved rabid...
...invariably fatal. But it is completely preventable. The World Health Organization reported last week that Norway has had no case in animal or man since 1809, Australia since 1867, Britain since 1922. In 1959, the U.S. had five deaths through November. Prevention requires two rigorous steps: destruction of every rabid animal, followed by strict quarantine to keep the disease out. (Vaccination of pets is a valuable added precaution...
...current border-jumping epidemic began Labor Day, when one rabid dog bit a man and a child. It built up gradually. Imperial County was quarantined and declared a rabies area in early November...