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Sky Vaccines: Ridding Raccoons Of Rabies En Masse
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:13:06
Publish Date: 2023-11-01 07:00:59
Description: Every year, the USDA drops millions of oral rabies vaccines across fourteen states, mostly along the eastern seaboard. In urban and suburban areas, they use vehicles, but in rural areas, they drop the vaccines from planes. Host Regina G. Barber talkes to USDA wildlife biologist Jordona Kirby about the agency's goal to wipe out rabies in one population in particular: raccoons.
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