With World Rabies Day approaching on September 28th, Grey Bruce Public Health is promoting strategies to prevent rabies ahead of the day.
The World Health Organization has established Act Now: You, Me, Communities as the theme for World Rabies Day.
The theme looks over how everyone has a role to play in rabies prevention and achieving the goal to remove the virus worldwide.
Senior Public Health Manager Andrew Barton says although human cases of rabies are rare in Canada we know the virus continues to circulate with bats being the most common carrier in Southern Ontario.
In Grey-Bruce with the exception of bats there has been no evidence of rabies in wild or domestic animals in the past 10 years.
