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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The County of Fresno is urging residents to instrumentality indispensable precautions to support themselves aft uncovering bats that tested affirmative for rabies.
The Fresno County Department of Public Health (FCDPH) says these bats that tested affirmative for rabies were recovered successful Fresno and Reedley. They adhd the deceased bat recovered successful Reedley mightiness person been successful interaction with respective feral cats earlier being secured and sent for testing.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), rabies is simply a preventable viral illness for mammals, astir often transmitted done the wound of an infected animal, and tin beryllium fatal to humans if attraction is not received earlier symptoms appear.
The CDC says aboriginal symptoms tin see weakness oregon discomfort, fever oregon headache, prickling oregon adjacent itching astatine the wound site.
The region says nary known quality exposures person been reported astatine this time; however, they inactive impulse residents to instrumentality indispensable precautions to support themselves, their families and pets. Those precautions include:
- Avoid interaction with chaotic animals, including bats, raccoons, oregon immoderate unfamiliar wildlife.
- Ensure favored vaccinations are current.
- Secure your location and seal immoderate gaps that could let wildlife to enter.
- Report antithetic carnal behavior. Examples see a sick oregon dormant strat feline wrong the adjacent 10 days oregon immoderate chaotic carnal acting strangely, specified arsenic a bat performing daytime activities.
Officials impulse anybody who had interaction with a bat, oregon if their pets did, to interaction the FCDPH Environmental Health Division astatine 559-600-3357 for guidance. For the City of Reedley carnal control, interaction constabulary dispatch astatine 559-638-2122.
