I remember back in the early 1990's here in S.E. Michigan, the golf course we always played and where my dad was the park chief ranger, had raccoons wondering aimlessly around the park infected with a disease similar to dog distemper.....
If spotted along the park road, he dispatched them then called park maintenance to pick them up.........
Eventually the raccoons died out and the numbers returned to normal.......
No. Distemper I can swallow, but not this. This is not natural.