BANGOR DAILY NEWS • May 12, 2025
It will be raining rabies vaccines over Aroostook County this week. About 450,000 oral vaccines will be dropped from the air between Monday and Saturday, according to Lindsay Hammes, a spokesperson for the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. That will be in addition to the annual fall rabies vaccine drop. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services, which is partnering with the Maine CDC, is dropping the extra vaccine doses because of a spate of reports of rabid raccoons over the past year.