![]() ![]() ![]() “Rabies is lethal unless treated after exposure. “Raccoons are one of the most common carriers of rabies in Maine,” the department stated. ![]() Store management, according to the service, asked the woman to leave and promptly called the Maine Warden Service and the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The department stated Petco does not trim nails of wild animals. “While waiting, many different people handled the raccoon and some even kissed it,” the department said in its statement. The woman was carrying a juvenile raccoon with her and was asking the store to trim its nails for her. Auburn Avenue on May 23 at about 1:30 p.m. The department says the woman walked into the Petco on Mt. Officials are looking for the unidentified woman who, according to the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife, was breaking the law and “potentially exposing herself and others to rabies.” By Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy (Viking 275 pages 25.95) All but eradicated in the Western world, rabies does not present the most obviously pressing topic for a cultural history. While it sounds like the beginning of a joke, state wildlife officials aren’t laughing at reports of a woman walking into a store with a raccoon in Auburn Tuesday. The disease is a 'scourge as old as human civilization' write Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy, authors of Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus. ![]()
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