What I know about rabies policies in Canada is sort of hear-say, but I do have it from a research vet who casually asked someone in a position-to-know way back when. It seems that the most common rabies variant there is the fox one, but some form of red tape which had to be done for the excellent European study of fax rabies to be accepted was never done so even though a fine body of work is out there those in Canadian government have to act as if it does not exist for any legal aspects until it becomes (became?) accepted through the paperwork route. Do NOT know if this actually is so, but do think that folks in Canada SHOULD check with their provincial governments and see what would be needed according to their own individual public health vets, rules and regs, provincial law. etc. to go toward quarantine rather than death. The nature of the explanation is one which could be imagined with just about any governmental body. BTW, I seem to recall someone in Canada saying that their local or provincial area had decided to honor quarantines, but this is a vague recollection and could be completely wrong or just partly right. [Posted in FML issue 2307]