Two dozen more cases of rabies were diagnosed in animals in Ontario in October, bringing the total to 246 so far in 2016.

Over the same 10-month period, rabies has been found in 86 animals in the rest of Canada.

The recent outbreak of rabies in Ontario was first noticed last December, when a raccoon was diagnosed with the disease after getting into a fight with two dogs in Hamilton.

Most cases of the disease have been found in and around Hamilton, although the outbreak has also spread outward to places like Brantford and Caledonia.

Earlier this year, the province’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry airdropped about one million bait packages containing an anti-rabies vaccine around southern Ontario in a bid to halt the outbreak.

In Ontario in October, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency says, the disease was found in 19 raccoons, four skunks and one bat.

While most of the diagnosed cases in Ontario have been in raccoons, there have also been confirmed cases involving skunks, bats, one fox and one cat.

There were a total of 114 samples submitted from Ontario to the CFIA for rabies testing in October.