MORGANTOWN, W.Va – The Monongalia County Health Department (MCHD) announced that rabies has been found in a feral cat colony in Morgantown.
In a post on their official Facebook page, the MCHD reported that the feral cat colony is located on Distributor Drive off of Green Bag Road and will work with the United States Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service to mitigate risk on transmission.
According to the post, the USDA will be dropping oral rabies vaccine baits by airplane in late August in Monongalia County, and MCHD Environmental Health will distribute the baits by hand in early September.
Anyone who has been attacked or bitten by an animal should wash the wound immediately and follow-up with a health care provider.