Table 1.
Reported number of rabid rodents and lagomorphs in the United States, by year, from 1995 through 2010 and for 1979 through 1994.3,10
| Species | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | Total (No. [%]) |
1979–1994 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beaver (Castor canadensis) | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 31 (4.2) | 14 |
| Chinchilla (Chinchilla lanigera) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (0.1) | 0 |
| Chipmunk (Tamias striatus) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 (0.3) | 2 |
| Groundhog (Marmota monax) | 50 | 43 | 55 | 63 | 40 | 48 | 47 | 49 | 31 | 30 | 25 | 43 | 46 | 31 | 32 | 30 | 663 (90.0) | 379 |
| Guinea pig (Cavia porcellus) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (0.1) | 0 |
| Muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 (0.5) | 7 |
| European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 25 (3.4) | 24 |
| Brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (0.1) | 6 |
| Squirrel (Sciurus spp) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 9 (1.2) | 22 |
| Total | 54 | 47 | 65 | 68 | 45 | 52 | 56 | 52 | 38 | 32 | 29 | 44 | 50 | 34 | 38 | 33 | 737 (100) | 454 |