Editing Skunk (section)

===Bites===
It is rare for a healthy skunk to bite a human, though a tame skunk whose scent glands have been removed (usually on behalf of those who will keep it as a pet) may defend itself by biting. There are, however, a few recorded incidents of skunks biting humans.  Skunk bites in humans can result in infection with the [[rabies]] virus. The [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention|Centers for Disease Control (CDC)]] recorded 1,494 cases of rabies in skunks in the United States for the year 2006—about 21.5% of reported cases in all species.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=[[Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association]] | volume=231| issue=4 | year=2007 | title=Rabies surveillance in the United States during 2006 |author1=Blanton J.D. |author2=Hanlon C.A. |author3=Rupprecht C.E. | pages=540–56| doi=10.2460/javma.231.4.540 |pmid=17696853 | pmc=<!--none--> }}; Updated in {{cite journal |pmc=5120391 | pmid=25356711 | doi=10.2460/javma.245.10.1111 | volume=245 | issue=10 | title=Rabies surveillance in the United States during 2013 | year=2014 | journal=J Am Vet Med Assoc | pages=1111–23 |vauthors=Dyer JL, Yager P, Orciari L, Greenberg L, Wallace R, Hanlon CA, Blanton JD }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/docs/rabies_surveillance_us_2006.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080921030119/https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/docs/rabies_surveillance_us_2006.pdf|archive-date=21 September 2008| 
title=Rabies Surveillance US 2006 | 
publisher=[[U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]]}}</ref> 
Skunks in fact are less prominent than [[raccoon]]s as [[Vector (epidemiology)|vectors]] of rabies. (However, this varies regionally in the United States, with [[raccoon]]s dominating along the [[Atlantic Northeast|Atlantic coast]] and the eastern [[Gulf Coast of the United States|Gulf of Mexico]], while skunks instead predominate throughout the [[Midwestern United States|Midwest]], including the western Gulf, and in California.)