See the stinky way NYC trying to immunize city’s raccoons after rabies infections surge to 5-year high

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.

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…

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