The Unites States Department of Agriculture is dropping bait cubes laced with oral rabies vaccine throughout Appalachian states in an attempt to slow the spread of raccoon-strain rabies in the wild and to domestic animals.


 


The current bait drops are part of a program initiated by the USDA in 1997 to establish a rabies-free barrier in the Eastern United States

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