Abstract
Aggression and Rabid Coyotes, Massachusetts, USA
Highlights
The proportion of coyotes with positive rabies test results varied by type of contact as follows: fight (5/11), handling (1/26), unprovoked attack (2/4), and unknown (2/47)
Biting as type of contact was reported for 18 coyotes; positive rabies test results were found for 7
Of 11 coyotes for which aggression was reported, 6 had positive rabies test results (Table); aggressive animals were 27.6× more likely to be rabid than were those not reported to be aggressive (p
Summary
Miguel Pinto, Department of Mammalogy and Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024, USA; email: mpinto@amnh.org Rabies in coyotes has emerged in Massachusetts at the same time that coyote and human populations have increased. The public health rabies surveillance system in the United States is passive and relies on interaction of humans or domestic animals with rabies vector species (5).
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