Rabies
USDA expanding front line of antirabies campaign in East
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, June 23rd, 2002
Pennsylvania will join a handful of eastern states in which the U.S. Department of Agriculture is concentrating efforts to stop raccoon rabies from invading the Midwest and trying to erase the gains the disease has made in the East over the past 20 years.
"We are working toward a containment strategy," said Dennis Slate, head of the USDA's program against rabies.
Over the past 5 years, the USDA has spent more than $42 million in a federal...
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