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    We're in a prolonged guerilla conflict in Canada. We are winning but the end is not in sight yet.

    In Ontario every year the Ministry of Forestry distributes several million doses of rabies vaccine for wildlife. The goal is to immunize the majority of skunks, foxes, raccoons and the like, particularly in populated areas.

    They air drop edible pellets with the live rabies vaccine; they are labeled "do not eat" (and if you find one you shouldn't touch it) because it can vaccinate most susceptible mammals, including humans.

  • datakan 1 hours

    Strange article. So much focus on dogs with only one mention of bats who are the primary carrier and spreader of rabies.

    nephihaha 21 minutes

    Dogs were seen as the main vector right into the 1980s. Rightly so. A dog is more likely to attack you than a bat.

    Hikikomori 59 minutes

    The first recorded rabies from a bat was in 2002 so not that surprising that it wasn't a focus on victorian England.

    datakan 43 minutes

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