Once Upon a Time, Chicken Heads Rained from the Sky in Europe

to Switzerland What lies behind the looting of thousands of chicken heads? The interesting story is almost impossible to predict no matter how much you think!

Come, after you learn “That makes perfect sense!” This great mystery you will say Let’s solve it together.

At that time, Europe had multiple issues to contend with.

Once upon a time, wars were not the only things that broke out in Europe. A rabies epidemic also broke out. Illness, was carried by red foxes and had spread to domestic animals. Of course, it passed on to humans from there, and death was inevitable unless they were vaccinated.

When rabies hit Switzerland in 1967, many solutions were tried, but almost all failed. Authorities use such methods as shooting foxes with rifles or poisoning them. brutal methods had used it. They also tried to release them back into the wild after collecting them, grafting them, but they could not afford the cost of this process.

They looked for a solution in syringe traps.

Later, a new idea was put forward in the United States: “Vac-Trap”. Vaccine traps were placed on the ground and when the animal stepped on them, has a hidden syringe The spring mechanism was activated.

Although this method works somewhat was completely insufficient to cope. Moreover, nature lovers were accidentally stepping on these needles while walking.

Another idea came into play: baits containing vaccines.

Eggs, dog biscuits, milk corn flour, sausages… They tried to vaccinate them all and feed them to the foxes, but the animals loved them so much that to eat later They were hiding it. Thus, the vaccine was losing its effectiveness over time.

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We don’t know how scientists came up with this idea, but they found an effective method. And those were chicken heads. Soon, into the Swiss forests Chicken heads started raining. Chicken heads were dropped from helicopters, and security walls were made from thousands of chicken heads.

This is how rabies was brought under control.

At least 50,000 chicken heads were used Thanks to this method, Switzerland was saved from rabies. Later, much better feeds were produced in Germany to combat rabies and they began to be used.