What's more staggering is how many were due to skunk. Who gets close enough to a skunk to be bitten!?

>The actual number over the course of a year is mind boggling. Over 7,000 cases in 2001 (and those are just the number known and reported):
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>http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/rabies/Epidemiology/Epidemiology.htm
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>>We have none at all, being an island and having the most stringent anti-rabies quarantine laws.
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>>>For some reason, NC has a high number of rabies cases every year. Here in Guilford county, there were 37 confirmed cases in 2006 - the highest in the state.
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>>>http://www.gotriad.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070301/NEWSREC0101/70228049/-1/NEWSREC0201
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>>>>>Hate to spoil your enjoyment, but I regularly see foxes out in the woods. Foxes tend to not come out in the open though, so if one does, it usually is desperate or ill. Stay away from it. I once had a rabid fox leap onto my car while I was stopped at a stop sign in my rural area. It ran across the road to house on the land there and ran straight to the house. They had to catch it and turn it over for testing and sure enough, it was rabid.
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>>>>We don't have that problem, luckily.
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>>>>>>I'm sitting in my office, looking out at my front lawn, and a small fox just walked by. This isn't that odd, except that I'm in a highly-populated first-right suburb of Philadelphia, about 8 miles from Philly's City Hall as the crow flies.
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>>>>>>It's not the first time I've seen a fox here, but it is pretty rare. Unfortunately, it didn't stop and was gone before I could grab a camera.
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>>>>>>Tamar