Fox death: Critic saddened as rabies test inconclusive  news-
fox-lambethUVA's Lambeth Field area was the site of the
aggressive fox attacks on August 26.  It turns out that the
little grey fox captured and sacrified for a rabies test died in
vain, as the test that claimed its life appears, according to
published statements from a health official, unable to provide a
clean bill of health.  "It was a decision that was not really
made rationally," says local wildlife author Marlene Condon.
"Just because it was the first fox to get into that cage doesn't
mean you can condemn to death without having good reason to do
so."  Statements by Dr. Lilian Peake, director of the state
Health Department's Thomas Jefferson District, indeed suggest
that if the test were to help the bite victims or provide firm
evidence about the absence of rabies, than it was as doomed as
the captured animal.  Peake was quoted in a Daily Progress story
after the fox's death as saying that although the test returned
negative for rabies, the re