BANGOR DAILY NEWS • March 23, 2023
Spend enough time outdoors in Maine and sooner or later you’ll run into wildlife. It’s an exhilarating experience but it can turn ugly if the critter in question turns out to be rabid. That was the case in dozens of instances last year when 35 animals tested positive for rabies after coming in contact with a person, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. More than one-third of those — 12 — were found in raccoons. Over the past 10 years, Maine CDC reported that raccoons were the most common source of rabies-to-human exposure.