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"The introduction of any non-native species can have serious negative impacts on native wildlife. Black and white tegus are no exception," said SCDNR herpetologist Andrew Grosse, "Tegus mature and reproduce quickly, though most concerning may be their preference for eggs and the potential impacts to our native ground-nesting birds like turkey and quail, as well as other species such as the state-endangered gopher tortoise."

SCDNR asks people to report any sightings of black and white tegus in the wild to Andrew Grosse, grossea@dnr.sc.gov. If possible, please submit a photo, location, and time and date the individual was seen.

When you interact with wildlife animals you may be putting their life in danger.
This is especially true of Rabies Vector animals such as raccoons, foxes, bats and skunks.
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If you must handle the animal you should use heavy gloves to avoid scratches or bites and avoid contact with saliva in your eyes, nose, mouth and open wounds. All three can transmit the virus. We stress the importance of extreme caution because if you are scratched, bitten or contact saliva, the animal must be tested for rabies, whether suspected of infection or not. There is only one way to test for rabies and it requires euthanizing the animal. If a Rabies Vector animals tests positive and you were scratched, bitten or contacted saliva, you will need to have the post-exposure rabies treatment. This is expensive and very unpleasant. Worst of all, a healthy animal may have lost its life to ensure you will not lose yours.

For [non-Rabies-Vector] animals that have bitten a person, a 10-day quarantine is the usual way of determining if they have rabies. ... The logic behind the 10-day stretch that you pay for is that very, very few animals that are rabid and shedding virus in saliva will live past 10 days. If your dog bites you or someone else and survives for longer than 10 days, the chances that your dog was rabid at the time of the bite are essentially nil.
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Sure, you don’t want your pet to get rabies, but the public health folks are more concerned with making sure your dog doesn’t catch rabies from a fox who was in the back yard and then passing it on to every kid in the neighborhood. Thus, the rabies vaccine was invented and has become the only legally mandated vaccine for pets; other vaccines, for diseases like parvo and distemper, are medically necessary for the pets but don’t play a role in public health.
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When we euthanize a pet that has bitten someone recently, there is obviously no chance to see if the pet would survive the 10-day period. Using the example of the injured dog that has bitten her owner, if the dog has a broken back and the owner elects to euthanize, we don’t know if the dog was rabid when she bit her owner.
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The only definitive way to determine if an animal had rabies is to examine the brain. This is impossible to do while alive. Blood and other ante-mortem (before death) tests are not reliable enough when a human life is on the line. This means cutting the head off and submitting it to a state lab for rabies testing. This testing is not optional if your pet is not currently vaccinated for rabies. If an unvaccinated animal bites a human and then either dies or is euthanized, the head must, by law, be submitted for testing.

Skunks, raccoons, foxes and bats that bite humans should be euthanized and tested as soon as possible. The length of time between rabies virus appearing in the saliva and onset of symptoms is unknown for these animals and holding them for observation is not acceptable.