{"id":240651,"date":"2026-05-22T16:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T16:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/240651\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T16:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T16:16:08","slug":"bat-tests-positive-for-rabies-in-franklin-county-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/240651\/","title":{"rendered":"Bat tests positive for rabies in Franklin County, New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MALONE, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; A bat tested positive for rabies in Franklin County, New York, marking the county\u2019s first rabies case of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Franklin County Public Health officials said it was found in the town of Moria earlier this month, and the test was confirmed Thursday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The agency is reminding residents to keep their pets up to date on their rabies vaccinations, report any animal bites, and not touch wild animals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cms8.revize.com\/revize\/franklincountyny\/Document_Center\/Human%20Service\/Public%20Health\/Rabies\/2026%20RVC%20Schedule%20FINAL.pdf?t=202605221016480&amp;t=202605221016480\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/cms8.revize.com\/revize\/franklincountyny\/Document_Center\/Human%20Service\/Public%20Health\/Rabies\/2026%20RVC%20Schedule%20FINAL.pdf?t=202605221016480&amp;t=202605221016480\">The county offers free rabies clinics from now through October.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MALONE, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; A bat tested positive for rabies in Franklin County, New York, marking the county\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[33212,3658,9,24,55,54,12,56,5238,1634,1235,1631],"class_list":["post-240651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-bat","tag-franklin-county","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-rabies","tag-vermont","tag-vt","tag-wcax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}