
{"id":9942,"date":"2010-04-15T11:47:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T19:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=9942"},"modified":"2010-04-15T11:47:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T19:47:59","slug":"positive-rabies-test-for-bat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2010\/04\/15\/positive-rabies-test-for-bat\/","title":{"rendered":"Positive rabies test for bat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 12, Orange County Animal Services received a positive rabies result from a bat in the second confirmed Orange County rabies case in 2010. The exposure occurred on April 8 in the vicinity of Orange Grove Road and Old South Drive in Hillsborough. A resident discovered a dead bat at the bottom of her front-porch stairs. The resident\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pets, a cat and two dogs, had already been vaccinated against rabies. The animals received booster shots within 120 hours of the exposure, in accordance with North Carolina law. <\/p>\n<p>Animal Services director Bob Marotto urged residents to call animal services immediately in the event of a possible rabies exposure and to booster household animals within the legally required 120-hour period. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Equally important is to remember that bats are of utmost concern relative to rabies, such that all contact should be reported right away,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 12, Orange County Animal Services received a positive rabies result from a bat in the second confirmed Orange County rabies case in 2010.<\/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-9942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9942","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=9942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9943,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9942\/revisions\/9943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}