10-year-old Georgetown girl bitten by rabid cat
News 2 and The Georgetown Times
Published: November 2, 2009
Published: November 2, 2009
The Georgetown Times reports that a 10-year-old girl was bitten by a rabid cat while she was playing in her backyard on Thursday.
The newspaper says another cat that bit a Litchfield resident is now being tested for rabies.
The girl, Alexis Bone, is being treated for exposure to rabies.
Bone lives on Pennyroyal Road.
The cat that bit the girl has died.
Jay Cox, director of environmental services for the Georgetown office of DHEC, told the newspaper that it’s first case of a rabid domestic animal in quite some time.
Residents should go to the emergency room immediately if they believe they have come in contact with a rabid animal, said Neal Johnson with the Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office.
Animal control can be contacted at 546-5102.
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Channel 2 did a story on DHEC's having to stop paying for rabies shots, so we know that if her parents don't have good insurance they'll have to Pay $1,800 for the painful shots.
Now I'd like to see Channel 2 report on Charleston County and the City of Charleston plans to let people maintain colonies of feral cats with no liability for things like this. The ASPCA promises to trap, neuter, and sterilize the cats before releasing them. But anybody knows that you can't trap cats again each year to give them rabies shots, so they are having the law say that - unlike SC law - the feeders won't be the legal owners and so will bear no responsibility.
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