The state has been using airdrops to prevent the spread of rabies since 1995. (via outdoorlife)
Texas Department of State Health ServicesThis week the Texas Department of State Health Services began airdropping oral rabies vaccines along the southern border. The state’sis meant to protect wildlife populations, particularly foxes and coyotes, in the region from contracting or transmitting the deadly disease.
for 29 years now. The first airborne bait drop took place in South Texas in 1995, and it helped control a localized outbreak of a domestic dog/coyote variant of the rabies virus. This program was expanded in West Central Texas in 1996 to target the gray fox rabies variant. These airdrops also proved successful in lowering the number of rabies cases in the area from 244 in 1995 to zero in 2009. When the gray fox variant cropped back up there in 2013, the state’s targeted airdrop campaign helped eliminate it yet again.
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