Table of contents
- Anaplasmosis
- Anthrax
- Avian influenza
- Bluetongue
- Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
- Bovine trichomoniasis
- Bovine tuberculosis
- Chronic wasting disease
- Equine herpesvirus myeloencephalopathy
- Foot and mouth disease
- Infectious laryngotracheitis
- Johne's disease
- Lead toxicity
- Malignant catarrhal fever
- Newcastle disease
- Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea
- Rabies prevention and control
- Swine delta coronavirus
- Swine influenza
- Ticks
- West Nile Virus
Introduction
Rabies is a viral disease spread through the saliva of an infected animal. It is nearly always deadly if not treated before symptoms begin. All mammals can be infected with and transmit rabies virus. Alberta's rabies testing and surveillance program coordinates the testing of animal samples in response to a human or domestic animal exposure, when an animal dies or is euthanized with signs suggestive of rabies, and for the purpose of surveillance in striped skunks.
Find out what to do if you or your pet have been exposed, how the virus affects animals, and how to prevent it.

Big Brown Bat (Eptesicus fuscus). Source: Cory Olson
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