<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ec4e9b8e-cdd0-4074-9a4f-f8ae14724d82/49396330-5D6D-4B1A-B94A-F3FFA0B28975/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://bleaknews.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/rsoe-edis-usa-biological-hazard-20090219/" href="http://bleaknews.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/rsoe-edis-usa-biological-hazard-20090219/" style="font-size: 11px;">bleaknews.wordpress.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bleaknews.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/rsoe-edis-usa-biological-hazard-20090219/"><P><STRONG>EDIS CODE:</STRONG> BH-20090219-20567-USA <STRONG>Date & Time:</STRONG> 2009-02-19 03:58:35 [UTC] <STRONG>Area:</STRONG> USA, State of Connecticut, , Easton</p> <P><STRONG>The name of Hazard:</STRONG> Rabies (Conf. Animal, Raccoon) <STRONG>Number of Injured person(s):</STRONG> 3</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bleaknews.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/rsoe-edis-usa-biological-hazard-20090219/">A real estate agent was showing the home to a group of potential buyers shortly before 2 p.m., when the animal attacked the agent, biting him, police said. About 20 minutes later, the same animal bit one of the individuals who entered the home with the agent. Then, in the late afternoon, a man walking by the home was also attacked and chased by a raccoon, although the animal was not able to bite the man. Fitch said the raccoon was able only to grab at the man’s pants.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bleaknews.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/rsoe-edis-usa-biological-hazard-20090219/">Police say they believe it was the same raccoon that attacked the first two people earlier in the day. “That is the first time I’ve had someone bitten by a rabid raccoon here,” Easton Animal Control Officer Kelly Fitch said.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bleaknews.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/rsoe-edis-usa-biological-hazard-20090219/">And all three received a series of rabies shots as a precautionary measure.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/49396330-5D6D-4B1A-B94A-F3FFA0B28975/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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