Toronto Public Health wants you to stay away from raccoons. The agency reports a 117 per cent increase in raccoon bites and scratches for this year so far.
Toronto Public Health wants you to stay away from the trash pandas to keep yourself and your pets safe., TPH says, and in the number of reported cases of people being bitten of scratched by them.Dr. Eileen de Villa, the city’s medical officer of health, said that while people are heading outside more to enjoy the warm weather, “we remind everyone to avoid contact with raccoons and other wild animals to minimize exposure to rabies.
“In 2023, more than 80 per cent of the individuals bitten and/or scratched by raccoons received rabies post-exposure prophylaxis treatment, a series of multiple vaccine doses as raccoons are a high-risk vector for rabies transmission,” TPH said.
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