Peanut The Squirrel needs to be alive proper now, as a result of it is inconceivable the absolutely domesticated animal had rabies … so says an infectious illness professional.
NY state officers killed the web sensation final week with the intention to check Peanut for rabies, however a physician properly versed in rabies says authorities might need jumped the gun in impulsively testing for the illness.
Dr. Edward R. Rensimer tells TMZ … the CDC’s place is that squirrels will not be thought-about to be carriers or spreaders of rabies and to his data, there’s by no means been a recorded case of squirrel-to-human rabies transmission.
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Dr. Rensimer’s labored on animal exposures with rabies threat because the Nineteen Eighties, and he says it is uncommon for squirrels to have rabies … and, could be much more unlikely in Peanut’s case, as a result of the animal was not within the wild, and as an alternative lived indoors for 7 years with proprietor Mark Longo.
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Mark informed TMZ, authorities obtained a search warrant for his dwelling and seized Peanut. They declare Peanut bit one of many brokers, so that they euthanized it to check for rabies … despite the fact that the animal bit Mark a number of occasions over time, and he by no means confirmed indicators of rabies.
These officers haven’t revealed the outcomes of their rabies testing.
Dr. Rensimer says there are a variety of alternate options to going straight into rabies testing, which may solely be carried out as soon as the animal is useless.
As an alternative, he says authorities might have given Mark the choice to quarantine the squirrel, and have the alleged chew sufferer get a rabies vaccine.
Mark’s pissed about how the entire raid went down, and Dr. Rensimer believes Peanut did not essentially must be put down so urgently.
