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A homeowner who fed neighborhood raccoons for decades called 911 after coming home to find more than 100 of the fuzzy masked invaders "demanding food" and preventing her from getting inside.
A woman in Washington state called the cops after coming home to find her yard had been taken over by more than 100 raccoons, preventing her from getting inside. Sheriff’s office spokesperson ...
The raccoons often approach the home and scratch on windows and walls, but last week she called 911 when she said they trapped her on the property. Video shows nearly 100 raccoons swarm woman's ...
A common nuisance of raccoons is raccoon latrines (raccoon toilets), which may contain eggs of the roundworm Baylisascaris procyonis. Nuisance raccoon latrines may be found in attics, on flat roofs, on logs, in yards and sandboxes, etc. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] [ 16 ]
The eggs appear in the host species' feces. They can then be ingested by, and infest, a variety of other animals (including humans) that serve as paratenic hosts. [citation needed] Baylisascaris species include: Baylisascaris procyonis (of raccoons) [5] Baylisascaris melis (of European badgers) Baylisascaris transfuga (of bears)
Raccoon roundworm is of particular concern to public health. It can be contracted in humans by accidental ingestion or inhalation of the eggs, which are present in the feces of infected raccoons. While usually harmless to the host, it causes progressive neurological damage in humans, and is eventually fatal if untreated.
Romping raccoons that ran wild in Alice and David Zaslavsky's $1.2 million Brooklyn home pooped and peed everywhere, chewed through wiring and terrified the couple's 9-year-old daughter before ...
Adam picked up the parasites by eating sand contaminated with raccoon feces from his sandbox. The lines he kept drawing were actually the worms that blocked his vision. House orders anti-parasitic medication and laser eye therapy to clear up the problems.