Independent voices from the TWT Communities
The Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission has reversed a deputy commissioner's decision and forced an animal clinic to pay for a former employee's rabies shots, even though she was never diagnosed with the disease.
"If the cat licks its wounds and within a quick period of time someone with an open wound touched the cat's wound, it is possible that the virus can be transmitted," Dr. Spangler wrote. "Because of the severity of rabies infection where the result is death 99.9% of the time, even unlikely but possible exposures should be treated."
