At the end of the week, residents of Westchester County learned the disturbing news about aggressive coyotes attacking people. One of them bitten an officer of the district police department on Thursday, after which he was killed by his partner. It happened in Yonkers, near the Dunwoodie golf course. Manhattan bought a lottery ticket for $ 1 million in Mega Millions flickr.com/Tracy O / CC Manhattan bought a lottery ticket for $ 1 million in Mega Millions On its Facebook page, the agency called on the residents of the affected region to be cautious and reported that the injured policeman had taken a course preventive treatment against rabies.
As it turned out, not in vain. Subsequently, laboratory tests revealed a deadly virus in the blood of a dead animal. The threat to residents of Westchester County remains, as aggressive predators were at least two. One of them is still at large and can potentially be a carrier of rabies. It is known that before the attack on the policeman on Thursday, the coyote attacked a woman on the road between Tarrytown and the Bronxville. He bored the tire of her bicycle, but did not get to the body. The 24-year-old man was less fortunate - his animal was bitten in half an hour near the above-mentioned golf course. According to the police, on Wednesday the coyote bit two more people and killed a dog in Hastings-on-Hudson. On the same day, he drove his fangs into the leg of a postman from Yonkers. It is possible that some cases of attack are not recorded. In any case, the victims should undergo a preventive vaccination no later than two weeks after the bite. At the end of this period, it is impossible to save an infected person from death.