{"id":463702,"date":"2026-09-14T20:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T20:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/463702\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T20:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T20:36:18","slug":"rabid-bat-cases-surge-to-record-high-in-san-diego-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/463702\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabid Bat Cases Surge To Record High In San Diego County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From July through August, the CDC received 17% more rabies-related inquiries than during the same period in 2025, including reports of incidents involving multiple people. At least eight state health departments also reported increased use of rabies post-exposure prophylaxis, or preventive medical treatment given after a potential exposure.<\/p>\n<p>County officials said rabies risk occurs when someone has direct contact with a bat, including touching, holding or being bitten by one. Anyone who had direct contact with the bat found at the Safari Park should call the county&#8217;s Epidemiology Unit at 619-692-8499.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From July through August, the CDC received 17% more rabies-related inquiries than during the same period in 2025,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-463702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}