The Ministry of the Environment, the Fight against Climate Change, Wildlife and Parks advises the population that a raccoon infected with the rabies virus was found dead in Saint-Armand, in Estrie, on September 17 last December.
Thanks to the vigilance of citizens who reported it to the authorities and the rapid intervention of wildlife specialists from the Ministry, the animal was recovered the same day for analysis.
This is the first case of raccoon rabies in Quebec since 2015.
The animal was recovered approximately 1.4 kilometers from where a case was discovered in early December near the Quebec border, in the municipality of Highgate, Vermont.
-Remember that over the past year, several cases of raccoon rabies have been detected in northern Vermont, in the United States.
Tests carried out on raccoons in January 2025 by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency laboratory confirmed that the raccoon variant is indeed the cause.
