A Chicken Head With a Vaccine Capsule

Rabies is a viral disease that infects animals, particularly mammals. In many parts of the world, it has been controlled or is being controlled thanks to widespread animal treatment plans. But there's one meth we've been using across the world since the 19 seventies: hiding an oral form of the rabies faccine in a delicious, nutritious, decapitated chicken head. The earliest instance of researchers trying this out was in switzerland in 19 71 when they were trying to battle rabies outbreaks in red foxes. And as more countries have adopted oral rabies vaccines for wild animals, they're trying out different bait, like mass produced meat or fish tablets. I wa 80 tries something

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