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Management
Activities
The
Wyoming Animal Damage Management Board (ADMB) has initiated various
aspects of state-wide management for rabies. By statute, the Board
is to work towards 5 management goals:
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Surveillance
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Public
Education & Prevention
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Vaccination
Protocol
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Post-exposure
procedures and quarantines
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Agreements
with Law Enforcement Agencies
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Surveillance:
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Fall,
2003 the ADMB launched the first ever state-wide surveillance program
in the history of Wyoming.
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Through
cooperative efforts between the WY State Veterinary Laboratory and
USDA/Wildlife Services and the ADMB, approximately 400 clinical
specimens (17 per county) will be collected and analyzed to determine
the incidence of the disease in the state. The results of this
surveillance will be made available on this website on the
Incidents of rabies page.
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Public
Information and Education:
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In
2003, the ADMB began its public information and education
program. The first phase was the development and publishing of
the brochure "RABIES
- What You Need To Know". Approximately 12,000 of these
have been freely distributed.
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May,
2004. This website
www.wyorabies.org
was developed.
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Vaccination
Protocol, Post-exposure procedures and quarantines, Agreements with Law
Enforcement Agencies:
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These
three final areas are covered in the
Wyoming
Wildlife Rabies Management Plan and
Wildlife
Rabies Regulations.
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Under
existing statute, county commissioners are empowered to establish
"Rabies Districts", and by resolution create the parameters
by which the district may operate. Because this avenue for local
control of how management is to proceed, the ADMB meshed existing
county powers into the plan and regulations, thereby allowing the
county to determine how vaccinations, post-exposure procedures and how
law enforcement for rabies management may proceed within the created
district.
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Under
the management plan, the ADMB will offer its financial and other
available resources to the rabies district as requested or agreed
upon.
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