RABIES VACCINE DROPS IN WASHINGTON AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES

  

The Texas Department of State Health Services will launch  air drop rabies vaccine in 17 area counties, including Washington, Grimes, Waller, Fayette and Colorado Counties beginning next week.

The program is testing an expanded effort to vaccinate skunks.

The State Health Department first targeted skunks with limited  vaccines drops in 2012 and 2013 in Fort Bend and Waller Counties.

This year, portions of 17 counties in east and central Texas will be involved.

Dr. Laura Robinson, the director of the vaccine projects says that skunks and bats are the new animals in Texas most likely to spread rabies.

The effort has successfully eliminated the canine strain of rabies, and virtually eliminated the fox strain of rabies in Texas by vaccinating coyotes and grey foxes in a wide swath of southern and western Texas over the last 20 years. 

Bails will be dropped over rural areas and wildlife habitats in the expanded skunk study zone.

In all, approximately 2.5 million doses of the vaccine will be dropped.

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