Sentences with phrase «raccoon latrines»

The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene advises New Yorkers to avoid raccoon latrines (the area where raccoons repeatedly defecate) and to wash their hands if they come in contact with raccoon feces.

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And animals such as lizards and bobcats, for which raccoon feces is neither food nor a risk, treated the latrines no differently than any other place, the team reports in Oikos.

Raccoon roundworm infection in humans is rare but can be deadly, so the researchers observed the latrines from a distance and wore special shoes which they bagged before going home.