
{"id":2554,"date":"2008-05-08T07:22:29","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T15:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2008\/05\/08\/news-brief-rabid-raccoon\/"},"modified":"2008-05-08T07:22:29","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T15:22:29","slug":"news-brief-rabid-raccoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/05\/08\/news-brief-rabid-raccoon\/","title":{"rendered":"News Brief: Rabid raccoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A raccoon found northeast of Hillsborough tested positive for rabies on Tuesday at the State Laboratory of Public Health.<\/p>\n<p>The raccoon was submitted after a resident in the vicinity of New Sharon Church Road and Schley Road saw one of her four dogs with the raccoon. The dog was the mother of three five-month old puppies who were also outside at the time. Although the puppies were not seen with the raccoon, contact could not be ruled out.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe mother dog was vaccinated against rabies and received a rabies booster shot, required within 72 hours of exposure. The puppies, however, were not vaccinated, and must either be destroyed or quarantined for six months.  <\/p>\n<p>So far this year, Orange County Animal Services has received four positive rabies tests. If any possible exposure to a bat, raccoon or skunk is suspected, contact Animal Control at 245-2075 or call 911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A raccoon found northeast of Hillsborough tested positive for rabies on Tuesday at the State Laboratory of Public Health. The raccoon was submitted after a resident in the vicinity of New Sharon Church Road and Schley Road saw one of her four dogs with the raccoon. The dog was the mother of three five-month old&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}