Washington (AFP) – A fox that was put down after biting at least nine people including a congressman at the US Capitol has tested positive for rabies, public health officials said Wednesday. DC Health in Washington told AFP that laboratory analysis of tissue samples had “confirmed the fox tested positive for the rabies virus.” There are just one to three cases of human rabies per year in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the most common method of transmission is a bite that punctures the skin. Of 25 cases from 2009 to 2019, seven were acquired …