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The USDA is dropping vaccines from the skies — here's its 'long-term vision'

"The planes have a tube and a conveyor belt that just drops these vaccines to make sure they're sort of evenly dispersed."

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Ingenious and bizarre way the US Government is preventing a rabies outbreak: Planes drop bait laced with vaccines for racoons to munch on

The program uses vanilla and fishmeal flavors to entice raccoons to eat oral vaccines. Experiments with new flavors could help eradicate raccoon rabies across the US

To control rabies in wildlife, the USDA drops vaccine treats from the sky

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.

How plane-dropped bait vaccinates raccoons in the eastern U.S. : Short Wave : NPR

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 talks to USDA wildlife biologist Jordona Kirby about the agency's goal to wipe out rabies in one population in particular: raccoons.

Rabies vaccines dropped from planes in NC, GA, AL, TN and VA

Rocky Raccoon checked in to find free rabies vaccine | News

Unlike the Beatles’ Rocky Raccoon, the bandit-masked creatures in Southwest Virginia and East Tennessee will be checking in this fall not to find a hotel Bible but free rabies vaccine packets delivered by air.

Vaccine drop scheduled to combat wildlife rabies in NC, surrounding states

Officials are planning to soon distribute vaccines through areas of Western North Carolina and surrounding states in an effort to combat wildlife rabies.

America's Surprisingly Gentle War on Rabid Raccoons

USDA scattering rabies vaccines for wildlife in 13 states

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has begun scattering millions of packets of oral rabies vaccine from helicopters and planes over 13 states from Maine to Alabama.