New law would allow testing the animals for rabies first
WRAL reports that New Mexico is currently revising its law that mandates the euthanization of bears and wild animals that attack humans to enable rabies testing.
According to the report, the bill will allow for “case-by-case review on whether wild animals involved in an attack should be euthanized.” The report also states that “Animals would be spared under some circumstances when patients decide to take a rabies vaccine. Without that, rabies testing has to be done on the animal’s brain.”
The case comes after the euthanization of a mother black bear last June after it attacked a marathon runner causing deep puncture wounds and a bone fracture.
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The runner, Karen Williams helped draft the legislation because she believed the bear was acting in defense of her two cubs. Unfortunately, the mother was euthanized and her cubs released back to the wild.
WRAL also states that the new bill “would give state health officials the ability to consider the current risk of rabies in specific wildlife populations, as well as whether a wild animal acted in self-defense, before requiring a test for rabies virus. Wild animals that exhibited predatory behavior toward humans or any symptoms of rabies would still be killed.”
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