Acknowledgements

Editors:
Debra C Bourne (WIN), Nicola Blay (IZVG)  and Suzanne I Boardman (Twycross Zoo)

Consulting Editor: Robert G McLean, National Wildlife Research Center, USDA

The purpose of this volume is:

• To show the interrelationships of raccoon biology and behaviour with raccoon rabies and its transmission.

We particularly wish to thank:

• All those who reviewed and commented on this volume, including Welch Agnew (Pinellas County Animal Services), Michael Dunbar (NWRC), Suzanne R. Jenkins (Virginia Department of Health), Robert G. McLean (NWRC), Scott Odee & Kathy Smith, (Ohio Department of Health), Jeff Root (NWRC), Rick Rosatte (Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources), Dennis Slate (APHIS); any remaining errors are the responsibility of the editors.
• Charles Rupprecht & Jesse Blanton (CDC) for answering questions and providing access to CDC reports from the early years of the raccoon rabies spread in the mid-Atlantic states.
• The American Veterinary Medical Association for allowing us to include the "Rabies Surveillance in the United States" reports and Special Series of articles on Rabies in the Electronic Library.
• Photographs are from AAVLD (photographs from Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation Vol. 8 Hamir et al. p 31-37) with permission, the CDC website, Dr Nick Gibbins, Tracy Leaver (Woodlands Wildlife Refuge, Inc.), Robert G McLean, National Wildlife Research Center, USDA,