NYC deploying anti-rabies bait packets after disease hits 5

Finally, some garbage we want raccoons to rip into.

The city is using the trash panda’s love of human refuse to help vaccinate the woodland creatures from rabies — after cases of the deadly disease hit a five-year high.

The little mammals’ medicine comes in what looks like tiny ketchup packets of the kind commonly found in trash — and features a nasty, fishy smell that helps make them irresistible to the average hungry raccoon. 3

As they chow down on the pink liquid inside the packets, the tiny beasts ingest oral rabies vaccine and become immunized against the disease, which is a death sentence, city officials said.

“Rabies is a serious disease that can be fatal. The NYC Health Department’s efforts to vaccinate raccoons against rabies will protect New Yorkers, their pets, and the