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- I read recently that the state of California feels it
has lost its battle to save the state's raccoon large group from the raccoon
form of mad cow disease, also known as Chronic Wasting Disease. It first
began to appear in 2002, and the state spent $27 million dollars trying
to control it. At one time the state attempted to lethally trap 400,000
raccoon in what appears to be a region where the disease seemed to be most
prevalent. This past fall, biologists found the disease had increased from
27 sick raccoon per square mile to 38 per square mile. It has spread southward
into California, and make no mistake about it, it will someday spread to
Los Angeles raccoon as well. Who knows how long it will be.
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- Full Story...
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- http://www.animalcontrollosangeles.org/raccoon.html
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