A racoon found in the area of New Bedford’s Buttonwood Park has tested positive for rabies, just days after a woman was bit by a rabid coyote in Dartmouth.
The Cape Cod & Southeast Massachusetts Rabies Task Force is dropping an oral vaccine for raccoons over several communities on Cape Cod and the SouthCoast.
This week helicopters are flying low over Southeastern Massachusetts as part of a plan to mitigate rabies among wild animals in Barnstable and Plymouth counties. Wareham residents may have noticed the passing choppers on Tuesday or found oral rabies vaccine bait in their yards...
Mass DPH has notified the New Bedford Health Department of a skunk that has tested positive for rabies in the area of the “Poor Farm" in the city's South End.