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News Release 9-5-2002 |
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RABIES VACCINATION MEDIA DAY SET FOR MONDAY A group of state and federal agencies will sponsor an Oral Rabies Vaccination (ORV) Bait Drop media day Monday, September 9, at Yeager Airport in Charleston starting at 1:30 p.m. The event is an opportunity for media representatives to interview experts on rabies and to view one of the planes used in the ORV Program. The planes will be flying out of Summersville this year, so this will be the only chance to see the plane in Charleston. The coalition of state and federal government agencies will airdrop 1.75 million small, vaccine-laden baits along a 30-mile-wide corridor encompassing 34 counties from the Northern Panhandle through the southern coalfields. The ORV Program’s goal is to vaccinate raccoons, which are notorious for carrying and transmitting rabies, thereby halting the westward spread of the disease. This is the second year for the program in West Virginia. Testing of wild raccoons last winter indicated that 20 percent of the animals had developed immunity to the disease. State agencies involved include the West Virginia Department of Agriculture, West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources and West Virginia Division of Natural Resources. Federal agencies include USDA Wildlife Services and the Centers for Disease Control. |
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