The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 24, 1945, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT Reports of Rabid Fox Scourge in Interior Areas True disease—rables—Is of That dread present among the wild animals Alaska. Confirmation of expressed belief that rabies is the cause of recent and current reports from Interior Alaska of attacks on domestic ani- mals and humans by “mad foxes”, has been received by R. B. Will- jams, Director of the Division of Laboratories, of the Territorial De- partment of Health, here Dr. Robert G. Green, of the Uni- versity of Minnesota, has wired Dir- ector Williams that tests ug fox head submitted to Dr. Gree have est@blished a diagnosis of r bies. The head checked by Dr was taken from following an attack in the Central area and was submitted to the Territorial laboratory by Fairbanks wildlife Agent Ray Woolford, last October. Direct examination of the head here at thab time failed to disclose the presence of rabies, how- ever, Mr. Williams at that time in- struoted residents of areas where such; attacks had been reperted to treat the afflication as if it rabies. Mr. Willlams followed his tests here by nding paort of the brain tisst Green for further facilities were Received serning wild a ed with the maddes been report Circle, G Kuskokwim tims of attac ized—a young rfi' City Ticket Office: Green U a frenzied animal ¢ P ————— attacked ion sev- m whe some form m known cases of s occurring in Alaska or Williams states ttacks by maddened ebruary, 1914, a man bitten at Candle by a dog from an Eski- mo's sled team later succumbed The following year, a soldier was ten by a mad fox near St. Mich- ael. He was treated for rabies, but did not develop the disease. Two Human Deaths To humah deaths occurred in the Wainwright area and were reported from Barrow in the spring of 1943. Both followed attacks by mad wolves A boy bitten died from the paralytic form of the disease. The other victim was a man Director Williams pointed out that all reports so far received have teen from the Interior and western coastal areas of the Territory; no known incidents having occurred in Southern Alaska. Dr. Williams affirmed, is definitely fatal to both animals and man with no known cure once the symptoms have- developed which may be many days after a bite .by infected animal. However, in- s known as the Pasteur given immediately after before symptoms have had hity to develop, will pre- vent their development - NEW PROCEDURE w cial were % N. Hawkins, 19, of Broc the editor of the Kearns Pc HOME SERVICE OF . AMER. 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