HOLLAND TWP., MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – Although the COVID 19 outbreak has garnered much of the attention of the Ottawa County Department of Public Health, officials there have not overlooked other health issues affecting the community.
On Friday (June 12, 2021), the department announced that it had received notification from the staet Bureau of Laboratories of three positive rabies tests conducted on bats received from the county. Two were from the Holland area, and the other was in the Hudsonville vicinity. There had been just two reported cases of rabies in bats throughout the county in the past five years prior to this result.
“Although our surrounding counties have not noted an increase in positive cases, consultants at the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services have reported the current number of bats testing positive for rabies statewide is trending very close to the exceptionally high number in 2007, when there were 199 cases of rabies in bats and 11 cases in other animals,” the department said in a statement.
More information on this situation is available here.
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