rabies vaccine

The Alabama Department of Public Health continues its investigation of possible rabies exposure to humans from a stray kitten. A litter of kittens had been abandoned on the campus of Tuskegee University.

The United States Department of Agriculture is distributing the oral rabies vaccine in parts of Alabama through Oct. 20. The action is a continuation of a decades-long program to reduce raccoon rabies and the associated public health risks from rabies exposures.

Raccoons are responsible for the majority of rabies cases every year. In an ongoing effort to reduce the threat of rabies to us and our pets, the USDA is using helicopters, airplanes and vehicles to distribute vaccine-laced raccoon bait to reduce the rate of infection.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Workers are using helicopters and trucks to distribute thousands of oral vaccines across a 17-county region of Alabama to stop the…