Jogger Runs Mile With Rabid Fox Clamped To Her Arm

[FWS]

Ariz. jogger runs a mile with rabid fox clamped to her arm
USA Today
November 05, 2008

An Arizona jogger ran a mile with a rabid fox clamped to her arm and then drove herself to a hospital, local news outlets report.

The unidentified runner told Yavapai County Sheriff's deputies she was on a trail near Prescott on Monday when the animal attacked her foot. She grabbed the fox by the neck but it bit her arm and clamped down. Wanting the animal tested for rabies, she ran a mile back to her car, pried the fox loose, wrapped in a sweatshirt and tossed it into her truck before driving to a hospital.

The fox bit an animal-control officer removing it from the trunk. The animal tested positive for rabies.

The jogger and the officer are receiving a series of vaccinations.

[northof50]

Now there is going to be a lot of pain with all those series of needles those people have to go through for the next 14 days.

[michaelweese]

some say that when you get vaccinated that you can't get rabbies from then on! true or not true?

[SteveCraig]

Thats what happens when you cant trap or shoot them within the city limits.

[northof50]

When you have had exposure in these cases, titor is checked but a series of shots still occur. There has been NO human survive when they have had rabies virus growth.
Titor levels go down as the years pass, so the is a point when you can be subseptical again.
Have been in a program for 30 years monoriting our levels.
Every person responds differently to thier titor levels.