Health Alerts

Alaskan pet owners in Nome, its surrounds and St. Lawrence Island have been cautioned to ensure their dogs and cats are up to date with their compulsory rabies vaccinations after a ‘dramatic increase in positive rabies cases in foxes and dogs’ which has increased the risk of exposure to humans. The rabies virus is endemic in arctic foxes and is spread to the more commonplace red fox and other wildlife (and unvaccinated domestic pets) ‘in late winter and early spring when the Arctic foxes come off the ice’, however the rabies risk is year-round.  Read More