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Article: BROWARD COUNTY WRAPS UP RABIES VACCINE PROGRAM FOR RACCOONS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- March 7, 2009
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., March 6 -- Broward County has issued the following news release:
As part of Broward County's Oral Rabies Vaccine program (ORV), representatives from the Broward County Animal Care and Regulation and Parks and Recreation divisions will continue to distribute baits filled with an oral rabies vaccine beginning the week of March 9, 2009.
This month's distribution will complete the County's five-year effort, initiated by Broward County Commissioners in 2004, to vaccinate raccoons against rabies. In January of this year, the County had distributed a small amount of bait in various parts of the County. However, this final distribution will entail most of the County's ...