G.M.'s Wildlife Control

06/21/2017

We are reporting 1 new case of raccoon strain rabies from last week, occurring in a raccoon from Niagara Region.



We are currently at 327 cases of raccoon strain, and 9 cases of fox strain rabies in Ontario to date.



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Summary (since Dec 2015):

Raccoon strain rabies: 327 cases

Hamilton: 248 cases

Niagara: 25 cases

Haldimand: 23 cases

Brant: 17 cases

Halton: 14 cases



Raccoon Strain Species Breakdown:

Raccoons: 222 cases

Skunks: 101 cases

Fox: 1 case

Cat: 2 cases

Llama: 1 case



Fox Strain Breakdown:

Bovine: 6 cases

Skunk: 2 cases

Fox: 1 case



Huron County: 2 cases

Perth County: 6 cases

Waterloo Region: 1 case



Number of DRIT tests: > 6,100

Number of baits distributed since April 2016; > 1,600,000

06/07/2017

06/07/2017

There were 2 new cases of raccoon strain rabies for the week of May 23 occurring in 2 raccoons from Hamilton, and 3 new cases of raccoon strain rabies this past week, occurring in two skunks and one raccoon from Hamilton. Additionally, on May 25 OMAFRA received confirmation by CFIA of a positive fox in the Waterloo Region which has been confirmed as being positive for fox strain rabies.

04/18/2017

For the week of April 3, we are reporting 1 new case of raccoon strain rabies, occurring in a raccoon from Niagara. We are currently at 296 cases of raccoon strain and 8 cases of fox strain rabies in Ontario to date.

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Summary (since Dec 2015):

Raccoon strain rabies: 296 cases

Hamilton: 232 cases

Haldimand: 21 cases

Brant: 17 cases

Niagara: 16 cases

Halton: 10 cases



Raccoon Strain Species Breakdown:

Raccoons: 201 cases

Skunks: 91 cases

Fox: 1 case

Cat: 2 cases

Llama: 1 case



Fox Strain Breakdown:

Bovine: 6 cases

Skunk: 2 cases



Huron County: 2 cases

Perth County: 6 cases



Number of DRIT tests: > 5,200

Number of baits distributed since April 2016; > 1,600,000

03/17/2017

We are reporting 3 new cases of raccoon strain rabies from the week of March 8th, occurring in 3 raccoons from Hamilton. Additionally, OMAFRA had confirmation of a positive fox strain case in a cow on a farm in Blyth on March 1. This brings the total to 293 cases of raccoon strain and 7 cases of fox strain rabies in Ontario to date.

03/07/2017

We are reporting 4 new cases of raccoon strain rabies from this week, occurring in 2 raccoons and 1 skunk from Hamilton and 1 raccoon from Brant County. OMAFRA received confirmation of two additional cases of rabies in a raccoon from Niagara and a skunk from Haldimand. This brings the total to 290 cases of raccoon strain and 6 cases of fox strain rabies in Ontario to date.

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Summary (since Dec 2015):

Raccoon strain rabies: 290 cases

Hamilton: 228 cases

Haldimand: 20 cases

Brant: 17 cases

Niagara: 15 cases

Halton: 10 cases


Raccoon Strain Species Breakdown:

Raccoons: 196 cases

Skunks: 90 cases

Fox: 1 case

Cat: 2 cases

Llama: 1 case


Fox Strain Breakdown:

Bovine: 4 cases

Skunk: 2 cases


Huron County: 1 case

Perth County: 5 cases


Number of DRIT tests: > 5,000

Number of baits distributed since April 2016; > 1,600,000

02/28/2017

We are reporting 2 new cases of raccoon strain rabies from this past week, occurring in 1 raccoon from Brant County and 1 raccoon from Hamilton This brings the total to 284 cases of raccoon strain and 6 cases of fox strain rabies in Ontario to date.

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Summary (since Dec 2015):

Raccoon strain rabies: 284 cases

Hamilton: 225 cases

Haldimand: 19 cases

Brant: 16 cases

Niagara: 14 cases

Halton: 10 cases


Raccoon Strain Species Breakdown:

Raccoons: 192 cases

Skunks: 88 cases

Fox: 1 case

Cat: 2 cases

Llama: 1 case


Fox Strain Breakdown:

Bovine: 4 cases

Skunk: 2 cases

02/15/2017

We are reporting 3 new cases of raccoon strain rabies from this past week, occurring in 2 skunks and 1 raccoon. Additionally, a cat from Hamilton tested positive for raccoon rabies last week. This brings the total to 281 cases of raccoon strain and 6 cases of fox strain rabies in Ontario to date.

Please contact me if you have any questions.

Summary (since Dec 2015):

Raccoon strain rabies: 281 cases

Hamilton: 224 cases

Haldimand: 19 cases

Brant: 15 cases

Niagara: 13 cases

Halton: 10 cases



Raccoon Strain Species Breakdown:

Raccoons: 189 cases

Skunks: 88 cases

Fox: 1 case

Cat: 2 cases

Llama: 1 case



Fox Strain Breakdown:

Bovine: 4 cases

Skunk: 2 cases


Huron County: 1 case

Perth County: 5 cases

Number of DRIT tests: > 4,800

Number of baits distributed since April 2016; > 1,600,000

11/28/2016

We are reporting 6 new cases of raccoon strain rabies this week in 2 raccoons and 4 skunks. The positive locations are: 1 skunk from Halton and the rest from the Hamilton area. This brings the total to 250 cases of raccoon strain rabies. CFIA has confirmed an additional case of Arctic Fox strain rabies in a cow from Perth County, increasing the number of fox strain cases to 3 since December 2015.



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Summary:

Fox strain rabies: 3 cases



Raccoon strain rabies: 250 cases

Hamilton: 203 cases

Haldimand: 18 cases

Brant: 11 cases

Niagara: 12 cases

Halton: 6 cases



Raccoons: 172 cases

Skunks: 76 cases

Fox: 1 case

Cat: 1 case



Number of DRIT tests: > 4,300

Number of baits distributed since Dec 2015; > 1,600,000

10/20/2016

We are reporting 4 new cases of raccoon strain rabies this week in 2 raccoons and 2 skunks. The positive locations are: 1 raccoon and 1 skunk from Hamilton, 1 raccoon from Halton, and 1 skunk from Niagara. We also received strain typing from CFIA of a Hamilton skunk that was previously tested and confirmed as rabies positive, as being infected with bat strain rabies, not raccoon strain as we presumed it would be. Because we will remove this from our total raccoon strain cases, this brings the total to 220 cases of raccoon strain rabies and we remain at 2 cases of fox strain rabies cases since December 2015.



CFIA completes strain typing typically 2 – 4 weeks following our submissions for virus testing. Due to the location of these submissions we presume positives to be raccoon strain until we hear differently.



Please contact me if you have any questions.



Summary:

Raccoon strain rabies: 220 cases

Hamilton: 179 cases

Haldimand: 18 cases

Brant: 10 cases

Niagara: 11 cases

Halton: 2 cases



Raccoons: 155 cases

Skunks: 63 cases

Fox: 1 case

Cat: 1 case



Number of DRIT tests: 4,100

Number of baits distributed since Dec 2015; 1,600,000

10/11/2016

This is the newest info just recieved:

We are reporting 10 new cases of raccoon strain rabies this week; 9 of these cases were in raccoons DRIT tested through the MNRF lab at Trent and confirmed by CFIA, one was in a skunk confirmed by CFIA through an OMAFRA submission. The raccoon positives locations are: 1 from Brant, 3 from Niagara, 2 from Hamilton, 2 from Haldimand and 1 from Halton. The additional skunk was from the Hamilton area. This brings the total to 213 cases of raccoon strain rabies and 2 cases of fox strain rabies cases since December 2015.



Summary:

Raccoon strain rabies: 213 cases

Hamilton: 176 cases

Haldimand: 18 cases

Brant: 9 cases

Niagara: 9 cases

Halton: 1 case



Raccoons: 150 cases

Skunks: 61 cases

Fox: 1 case

Cat: 1 case