Ontario Rabies Update for March 18, 2020 – 0 New Cases

No new cases of rabies detected last week (March 18, 2020).

 

We are currently at 471 cases of raccoon strain, and 21 cases of fox strain rabies in Ontario to date.

 

Annual Summaries

Numbers in red in all tables are fox strain.

Numbers in black in all tables are raccoon strain.

 

2020

 

County	Raccoon	Skunk	Fox	Cat	Bovine	Dog	Total
Brant	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Haldimand	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Halton	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hamilton	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Huron	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Niagara	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Norfolk	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Perth	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Waterloo	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Waterloo	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total Fox Strain	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total Raccoon Strain	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Number of DRIT tests: 935

Number of baits distributed: 0

Number of confirmatory tests performed by CFIA (Ontario only, including bats): 2

Number of confirmatory test performed by CFIA (Ontario only, terrestrial animals only): 0

Number of rabies positive terrestrial animals subject to virus variant typing by CFIA (Ontario only): 0

 

2019

 

County	Raccoon	Skunk	Fox	Cat	Bovine	Dog	Total
Brant	1	1	0	0	0	0	2
Haldimand	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
Halton	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hamilton	6	8	0	0	0	0	14
Huron	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Niagara	1	2	0	0	0	1	4
Norfolk	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Perth	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Waterloo	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
Waterloo	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total Fox Strain	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total Raccoon Strain	9	12	0	0	0	1	22

Number of DRIT tests: 4,425

Number of baits distributed: 1,164,992

Number of confirmatory tests performed by CFIA (Ontario only, including bats): 39

Number of confirmatory test performed by CFIA (Ontario only, terrestrial animals only): 26

Number of rabies positive terrestrial animals subject to virus variant typing by CFIA (Ontario only): 23

 

2018

 

County	Raccoon	Skunk	Fox	Cat	Bovine	Total
Brant	6	0	0	0	0	6
Haldimand	4	0	0	0	0	4
Halton	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hamilton	29	7	0	0	0	36
Huron	0	1	0	0	0	1
Niagara	10	7	0	0	0	17
Norfolk	1	0	0	0	0	1
Perth	0	0	0	0	1	1
Waterloo	0	1	0	0	0	1
Waterloo	0	2	0	0	0	2
Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph	0	3	0	0	0	3
Total Fox Strain	0	6	0	0	1	7
Total Raccoon Strain	50	15	0	0	0	65

Number of DRIT tests: >3,800

Number of baits distributed: 1,444,161

Number of confirmatory tests performed by CFIA (Ontario only): 81

Number of rabies positive terrestrial animals subject to virus variant typing by CFIA (Ontario only): 74

2017

 

County	Raccoon	Skunk	Fox	Cat	Bovine	Total
Brant	8	0	0	0	0	8
Haldimand	6	2	0	0	0	8
Halton	8	9	0	0	0	17
Hamilton	45	19	0	1	0	65
Huron	0	1	0	0	1	2
Niagara	19	2	0	0	0	21
Perth	0	1	0	0	3	4
Waterloo	0	3	1	0	0	4
Total Fox Strain	0	5	1	0	4	10
Total Raccoon Strain	86	32	0	1	0	119

 

Number of DRIT tests: >4,000

Number of baits distributed: >1.1M

Number of confirmatory tests performed by CFIA (Ontario only): 138

Number of rabies positive terrestrial animals subject to virus variant typing by CFIA (Ontario only):  127

2016

 

County	Raccoon	Skunk	Fox	Cat	Llama	Bovine	Total
Brant	11	1	0	0	0	0	12
Haldimand	17	0	0	0	1	0	18
Halton	7	2	0	0	0	0	9
Hamilton	126	76	1	1	0	0	204
Huron	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
Niagara	10	2	0	0	0	0	12
Perth	0	1	0	0	0	1	2
Total Fox Strain	0	2	0	0	0	1	3
Total Raccoon Strain	171	81	1	1	1	0	255

 

Number of DRIT tests: >4,500

Number of baits distributed: >1.6 million

2015 (December only)

 

County	Raccoon	Bovine	Total
Haldimand	1	0	1
Hamilton	9	0	9
Perth	0	1	1
Total Fox Strain	0	1	1
Total Raccoon Strain	10	0	10

 

Number of DRIT tests: >150

Number of baits distributed: ~220,000