If you look in ProMed:
http://www.promedmail.org
[direct link: http://www.promedmail.org/direct.php?id=20140728.2640450 ]

you will notice that numerous parts of the U.S. are going through an
upswing in rabies rates, in some places a sharp upswing, in vector
animals in recent weeks.

For more about rabies prevention look up
CDC rabies
http://www.cdc.gov/rabies/

and the relevant compendium at the NASPHV website:
http://www.nasphv.org/documentsCompendia.html

In the past for ferrets rabies vaccinations have protected animals
from disease, but have *****protected even MORE ferrets from needless
euthanasia***** when scratches or nips have happened outside the
ferrets' families.

[Posted in FML 8160]