{"id":542345,"date":"2026-07-10T07:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T07:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/542345\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T07:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T07:19:08","slug":"an-cat-dubh-sanctuary-devastated-amid-highly-contagious-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/542345\/","title":{"rendered":"An Cat Dubh Sanctuary Devastated Amid &#8220;Highly Contagious&#8221; Outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A West Clare Animal Sanctuary says it\u2019s devastated following a \u201chighly contagious\u201d outbreak which has temporarily forced its closure.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s after blood tests confirmed the presence of Panleucopaenia in a group of dead cats and kittens at the An Cat Dubh Sanctuary in Miltown Malbay.<\/p>\n<p>The condition which attacks white blood cells is particularly harmful to kittens.<\/p>\n<p>Founder of An Cat Dubh Sanctuary Dr Rhonda Lucas says they\u2019re taking steps to eradicate the disease.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the full interview here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A West Clare Animal Sanctuary says it\u2019s devastated following a \u201chighly contagious\u201d outbreak which has temporarily forced its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[61,60,82],"class_list":["post-542345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}