51.   Most cases came from trapping and skinning an infected animal.

52.   On the contrary, rabies affects the nervous systems of infected animals, and rabid skunks will sometimes spray uncontrollably as a result.

53.   Other flies spread it from the infected animals to humans.

54.   People usually catch it through contact with an infected animal, often when the animal is butchered or being disposed of.

55.   People who handle hides or carcasses of infected animals occasionally catch the disease through the skin, in a form known as cutaneous anthrax.

56.   Rabies, which affects the nervous system, is most commonly passed to humans through the bite of an infected animal.

57.   Public health officials have struggled for decades to dispose of dead infected animals in a way that protects nearby human populations from accidental exposure and death.

58.   So far, eating an infected animal has never been seen as a route of infection, according to the federal health officials.

59.   Swine fever is usually controlled only by the destruction of infected animals.

60.   Still, the World Health Organization believes the virus is transmitted to humans following contact with infected animals or animal tissues.