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More than 30 people in California's Imperial County were bitten last week by dogs, many of which were certainly rabid...
...were taking or had recently finished the tedious "Pasteur treatment"*-a series of 14 to 21 painful daily injections. Since Labor Day, 1,388 animals (mostly dogs, but including 187 cats) had been shot (more than 200 last week) on the suspicion that any animal at large might be rabid. That the suspicion was justified was shown in a check of 48 stray dogs picked up at Calexico in four days: 29 proved rabid...
...invariably fatal. But it is completely preventable. The World Health Organization reported last week that Norway has had no case in animal or man since 1809, Australia since 1867, Britain since 1922. In 1959, the U.S. had five deaths through November. Prevention requires two rigorous steps: destruction of every rabid animal, followed by strict quarantine to keep the disease out. (Vaccination of pets is a valuable added precaution...
...current border-jumping epidemic began Labor Day, when one rabid dog bit a man and a child. It built up gradually. Imperial County was quarantined and declared a rabies area in early November...
Heads in the Reefer. Dozens of dogs have been proved rabid, and in the county health department's refrigerator at El Centro there is a big backlog of heads from destroyed animals. Microbiologist Ella Capers Weston has not had time to check them all, has sent an overflow to state laboratories in Berkeley. At least 15 people have been bitten by dogs now known to have been rabid; scores of others have had to take the vaccine injections before the biters' rabidity could be established. Microbiologist Weston has taken them...