PA: Mysterious Illness Affecting Wildlife Forcing Police To Shoot, Kill (Hundreds of) Animals; Neighbors Worried For Their Pets

[Emily]

The news video reports that police have shot over 500 mostly raccoons and groundhogs and that they had to throw the bodies back into the woods they came from. The neighborhoods smell very bad. They were trying to have someone remove the bodies. They say it is not rabies, but police think a drop of oral rabies vaccine had something to do with the illnesses. USDA says nothing like this has happened after previous vaccine drops, but there is still no diagnosis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlsDPgRs1eg
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2017/09/13/ross-township-wildlife-mysterious-illness/

[h=1]Mysterious Illness Affecting Wildlife Forcing Police To Shoot, Kill Animals; Neighbors Worried For Their Pets[/h] September 13, 2017 7:18 PM By Brenda Waters
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?They seem to be sick, doesn?t seem to be rabies. The reason why they are saying they are sick is because they are not responding, moving or running away from them and they are listless. It?s like they are dying,? said Meyer...