Kahnawake on rabies alert after nearby cat tests positive

Potential risk to humans exposed to rabies, which is fatal almost all of the time after symptom onset if untreated.

A single confirmed rabies case in a stray cat, detected 60 kilometres from Kahnawake in mid-July, has prompted local animal control officials to remind their community that vigilance and prevention are the quiet work of safety. No cases have appeared within Kahnawake itself, yet the nearness of the disease — one that is nearly always fatal once symptoms emerge — is enough to warrant a measured call to awareness. In the long human relationship with zoonotic illness, the distance between calm and catastrophe is often bridged by small, timely acts: a vaccination renewed, a strange-behaving animal

Kahnawake on rabies alert after nearby cat tests positive

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