D.C. Health Department officials said the fox was euthanized in order to test for rabies. Her kits have also been found and captured, officials say.
. Roughly 120,000 animals a year in the U.S. are tested for rabies, and of them, about 6 percent are found to rabid.City officials said they would not be doing a “roundup of healthy foxes in the area” and would only intervene to “remove wildlife if they are sick or injured” or if someone had been exposed and rabies testing would be needed.
Barber had said it was hard to figure out how many incidents there have been because people were reporting them to various places, including U.S. Capitol Police, area hospitals and clinics. Officials were “not sure how long” the fox or foxes had been around the Capitol grounds or where they came from, Barber said.On Tuesday, Rep. Ami Bera said in a telephone interview that he was among them — attacked around 5 p.m. Monday, he said, while walking near the Russell Senate Office Building.
A physician by training, Bera then inspected the damage. He found his pant leg perforated, he said, but did not see any punctures or blood on the skin around his calf and ankles.Out of an abundance of caution, Bera said, he saw an attending physician, who consulted with infectious-disease doctors at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. He’s now begun a series of 10 shots, he said, including immunoglobulin shots and a tetanus shot, to combat the disease in case he was exposed.
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