Ontario Rabies Update for May 16 – No New Cases
No new cases of rabies confirmed this week. This is the third week in a row.
We are currently at 402 cases of raccoon strain, and 17 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.
2018
County |
Raccoon |
Skunk |
Fox |
Cat |
Bovine |
Total |
Brant |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
Haldimand |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Halton |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Hamilton |
10 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
13 |
Huron |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
Niagara |
1 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
Norfolk |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
Perth |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Waterloo |
0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
Total Fox Strain |
0 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
Total Raccoon Strain |
13 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
18 |
Number of DRIT tests: >1000
Number of baits distributed: 57,104
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: >3,000
Number of baits distributed: >1.1M
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