Horse stabled at Tennessee Walking Horse 2006 National Celebration tested positive for rabies

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  Saturday, September 09, 2006, 20:44 EDT (08:44 PM EDT)
  
  CDCHAN-00248-2006-09-09-ADV-N
  
  The Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) with the assistance of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are notifying the approximately 150,000 persons who attended the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration in Shelbyville of a confirmed case of rabies in a horse stabled on the grounds during the event. If persons were bitten or came in contact with saliva from this horse (described below) from August 23-31, 2006 while attending the Celebration, they may have been exposed to rabies and are invited to contact TDH for an assessment.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Horse Diseases Horses Rabies/veterinary
• Source:
  HAN ; 248
• Series:
  Health Alert Network
• Document Type:
  HAN Health Advisory
• Place as Subject:
  Tennessee
• Pages in Document:
  2 unnumbered pages
• Issue:
  248
• Collection(s):
  Health Alert Network (HAN)
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:a6d82fd783c36d9e87523f326d4d951603cc95069f3c738315304766dfcaf396007a2a1403e609ece7b3a194eec7c1f21c7852d683c399debedc22553eaed081
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/25159/cdc_25159_DS1.pdf
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