Why 🐵 UnitedStatesNews-NoOpEd picked: Rabies concerns grow in the US – but it’s unclear if there’s an increase of the fatal disease

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Rabid goats at a North Carolina petting zoo and a diseased beaver attacking a Maryland boy have set the public on edgeRecent unusual incidents involving humans and rabid animals and a subsequent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advisory have prompted concerns about rabies, but it’s not clear if there has actually been an increase in cases of the deadly disease in the United States, experts say.In recent months, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/14/maryland-rabid-beaver-attack" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">rabid beavers</a> have attacked three people in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/maryland" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Maryland</a>, and hundreds of people were exposed to goats with rabies at a petting zoo in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/northcarolina" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">North Carolina</a>, according to news reports. The CDC issued a <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/han/php/notices/han00533.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">health advisory</a> on 10 September “in response to recent reports of increases in human exposures to rabid or possibly rabid animals”. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/20/rabies-beaver-goat-prevalence-concerns" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a>

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