While the woman waited, multiple people touched the raccoon and some kissed the animal. Once the store manager found out about the raccoon, the manager asked the woman to leave and contacted the Maine Center for Disease Control & Prevention.
“Raccoons are one of the most common carriers of rabies in Maine,” the Maine Warden Service wrote on Facebook. “Rabies is lethal unless treated after exposure. If you were exposed to this racoon, please contact your health provider.”Rabies is a disease spread through a rabid animal’s saliva or neural tissue, the warden service said.
When people are infected by rabies, their initial symptoms are flu-like, including weakness or discomfort, fever or headache, the CDC said. The symptoms could last for days and if they progress, patients may experience anxiety, confusion and agitation. “The acute period of disease typically ends after 2 to 10 days,” the CDC wrote on its website. “Once clinical signs of rabies appear, the disease is nearly always fatal, and treatment is typically supportive. Less than 20 cases of human survival from clinical rabies have been documented.”
The warden service said if people come in contact with wildlife, it’s extremely important to enjoy it from a distance, never approach or handle it, never feed it and never try to move wild animals.“Keep Wildlife Wild,” the agency wrote. “If you care, leave them there.”
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