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This month planes have been flying low over the forest of Northern New England, pelting the ground with hundreds of thousands of fish-flavored treats.

Their target: raccoons.

The fishy treats are laced with rabies vaccine.

The vaccine bait drops are part of a government strategy to halt the march of raccoon rabies across the Eastern United States.

So far the program has helped stall the northward advance in New Hampshire at the North Country.

But in southern New Hampshire the virus is well established and rabies cases are on the rise.

New Hampshire Public Radio’s Kerry Grens reports.