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Originally Posted by Doug M.
They are pretty tough and I would not use a .22 unless I had to. As for the rabies issue, that's the first thing I thought of. I hope whomever moved the corpse gloved up first, closed the corpse in a plastic bag before putting it in the trash can or whatever else you did with it, and washed really well after the process.
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I met a guy that trapped pest animals (you need a license for this) and he live-trapped a raccon. When he put it in his truck (still in the cage) the coon spit and some of the spit got in his eyes. The raccoon was rabid and he had to go through the rabies series of shots (painful).
I've read that rabies has the highest mortality rate of any known disease that affects humans and other mammals.
Rabies has an almost 100% mortality rate. Only one person who got rabies has been known to survive. The rabies shots you get after a bite are a rush job of immunization, it is not a treatment for the disease itself.