Rabid bat found in Shawnee County, Kansas
July 21, 2021
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Kansas county health department on Wednesday announced it found a rabid bat.
A Shawnee County Health Department official said a dog pulled the bat out of a tree July 12.
Test results showing the bat had rabies came back Tuesday, Community Health Outreach and Planning Division Manager Craig Barnes said in an email.
Barnes said there s no sign that the rabid bat had contact with humans, but the dog will be monitored for 50 days as a precaution.
“Situations like this are an excellent educational opportunity to remind individuals about vaccinating their pets and livestock against rabies, not handling wild animals and what to do if an individual or their pet/livestock should be bitten by a wild animal,” Barnes said.
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Five cases of the California variant were found in Shawnee County over the weekend, said Craig Barnes, division manager of the health department s Community Health Outreach and Planning program.
Barnes said this variant is 20% more contagious than the U.K. variant but said vaccines are still effective. The California variant was first found in July 2020 and is one of the most common variants of concern in the U.S.
The new variant joins the 44 cases of the U.K. variant in the county, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment s COVID-19 dashboard.
Barnes said it is fairly common that counties report multiple different types of variants at the same time. Douglas and Jefferson counties also have cases of the U.K. and California variant, but both have a combined total of six variants of concern.
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