Susan Tulugarjuk was walking to work in Igloolik one morning in December when she felt something bite the back of the leg.
“I looked back, and there was a fox,” she recalled. “It attacked me from the back. I didn’t see it.”
The bite itself wasn’t too bad, but the bigger concern was rabies.
It’s been a banner year for rabies in Canada’s Arctic, with infected foxes showing up in several communities. Dogs have been attacked and sometimes killed.
Health officials have been issuing regular warnings to communities. Last week, people in Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T., were cautioned about two dogs that showed
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