Despite that rabies continues to be a public health threat, some animal health pros fail to recognize its persistence. Vaccination alone is not the “silver bullet” for continued control of this nearly 100 percent fatal disease. If vaccination is the foundation of rabies control, then animal control is the cornerstone of it.
Source: Vetted, April 14, 2017.
Since the 1960s wildlife reservoirs have become the predominant source of rabies outbreaks and subsequent human exposures in the United States. In the last four decades, domestic animals have been replaced by wildlife as the most commonly reported sources of human exposure, and true elimination of the disease in free-ranging wildlife seems unlikely. Skunks, foxes, raccoons and bats remain rabies reservoirs in various regions of the United States.