{"id":506913,"date":"2026-06-23T09:45:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T09:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/506913\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T09:45:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T09:45:06","slug":"red-squirrel-sickness-reports-in-tweeddale-under-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/506913\/","title":{"rendered":"Red squirrel sickness reports in Tweeddale under investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tests are being carried out to try to establish the cause of sickness in a number of red squirrels that have been spotted in the Scottish Borders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So far six reports have been made in the Venlaw area outside Peebles, as well as one in nearby Drumzelier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One dead squirrel has been recovered and it is being tested in Edinburgh to establish if it was a case of squirrelpox &#8211; a disease carried by greys but deadly to reds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Allan Johnstone, from the Tweeddale Red Squirrel Network, said it was a &#8220;terrible disease&#8221; which had similar effects on squirrels to myxomatosis in rabbits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tests are being carried out to try to establish the cause of sickness in a number of red&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[85,46,141,386],"class_list":["post-506913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}