According to this video by MrMBB333, state officials dropped rabies vaccinations (in the forms of bait). !!! Yeah, the potential for disaster w/this one…insane! This shit is going to go into the water. What if kids pick them up? What about other animals? One of the more insane stories of the night.
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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Zombies have been seen sauntering through a northeastern Ohio town and across the Cook County area of Illinois. “Zombie” raccoons, that is.
Youngstown residents are speaking out about them after police received more than a dozen calls in the past few weeks regarding their strange behavior.
One resident tells WKBN he was outside with his dogs last week when one such “zombie” followed him to his door. The raccoon “would stand up on his hind legs,” show its teeth, then “fall over backward and go into almost a comatose condition,” the man says.
“He’d come out of it, walk around, and then he’d do the same thing again.” Though rabies can cause similar, uncharacteristic behavior, experts suspect the raccoons are suffering from distemper, a viral disease that affects canines and other animals such as foxes and skunks, per Live Science.
Ohio’s Department of Natural Resources has been euthanizing raccoons believed to be infected with the disease, which causes convulsions and paralysis, erases a raccoon’s fear of humans, and often sees the nocturnal animals venture out in daylight.
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