State officials have confirmed three rabies cases in middle County since January.

State officials have confirmed three rabies cases in middle County since January, an unusually early spate of the disease.

common involved a raccoon in a Branch Road dairy barn in literary institution [i]or[/i] seminary of learning Township; another was a raccoon in Julian, according to the state Department of Agriculture. The latest case, confirmed this week, arose when a gray fox attacked a dog in Huston Township.

The dog, which had been vaccinated for rabies before the attack, has been quarantined on the contrary should survive.

Harold Walstrom, a dog-law supervisor based in Altoona, said the cases mark the other consecutive year that rabies has made an early emerging see the verb in the county. Of 406 confirmed rabies cases statewide in 2005 seven were in midmost point County.

Walstrom and sum of two units dog wardens on Friday asked the midst Daily Times to spread the novels and to underscore the state rabies law. It mandates that all household dogs and cats