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Trap-vaccinate-release program to control raccoon rabies, New York, USA
Sally Slavinski1, Lee Humberg, Martin Lowney
1New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, New York 11101-4132, USA. sslavins@health.nyc.gov
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|June 20, 2012
Abstract:
In 2009, an outbreak of raccoon rabies in Central Park in New York City, New York, USA, infected 133 raccoons. Five persons and 2 dogs were exposed but did not become infected. A trap-vaccinate-release program vaccinated ≈ 500 raccoons and contributed to the end of the epizootic.
