[Salamander]

Do you recall what year that was?

We literally went from “No one has seen a rabid coon in their lifetime” to my dad shooting half a dozen in *my front yard* every year.

I’m just across the river from the part of WV that abuts VA.

Makes me wonder.

[Zhang Fei]

[We literally went from “No one has seen a rabid coon in their lifetime” to my dad shooting half a dozen in *my front yard* every year.]

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They were all rabid? How could he tell?

[Governor Dinwiddie]

See: First Human Death Associated with Raccoon Rabies --- Virginia, 2003

During the late 1970s, rabid raccoons were identified in Virginia and West Virginia after probable translocation of infected animals from the southeastern United States. Raccoon rabies spread throughout the region, with approximately 50,000 rabid raccoons diagnosed to date. During 2003, Tennessee became the twentieth affected state, and the enzootic area now stretches from eastern Canada to Florida