US dropping ‘fish-flavored oral vaccines from the sky’ to combat raccoon rabies
US dropping ‘fish-flavored oral vaccines from the sky’ to combat raccoon rabies
The USDA is looking to combat rabies in raccoons by dropping fish-flavored rabies vaccinations from airplanes (Picture: Getty Images/iStockphoto)
The US Department of Agriculture has begun dropping fish-flavored rabies vaccinations from the sky with the hopes that raccoons and other woodland creatures will consume them and no longer spread the disease.
The department each year sets out to…