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...rabies virus also will likely continue to plague the raccoon population, she said...
State health department officials are monitoring a rabies epidemic which is spreading throughout the state's raccoon population, afflicting many of the animals and posing a threat to humans...
...disease, which has migrated northward from the Appalachian Mountains, has been confirmed in raccoon populations in nearly 90 percent on Massachusetts towns in the past year, according to state disease control records...
Because the disease kills ailing animals within one week, the Boston area's raccoon population has declined by as much as 80 percent recently, Landry said. But there is little danger that the species will become extinct, she said...
Officials there are trying to halt the spread by sprinkling vaccine laced food near raccoon habitats on the island, he said...