{"id":101695,"date":"2025-08-22T11:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T11:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/101695\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T11:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T11:29:10","slug":"raccoons-in-multiple-upstate-counties-test-positive-for-rabies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/101695\/","title":{"rendered":"Raccoons in multiple Upstate counties test positive for rabies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">FOUNTAIN INN, S.C. (FOX Carolina) &#8211; The South Carolina Department of Public Health said multiple animals across the state have recently tested positive for rabies, including in two Upstate counties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A rabid raccoon was found near Dove Lane and Knighton Chapel Road in Fountain Inn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In Pickens County, another raccoon also tested positive for rabies near Mile Creek and Martin School roads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In each incident, one dog was exposed to the animal. The dogs are being quarantined as required under state law<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In addition to the Upstate incidents, a bobcat in Aiken County, a skunk in York County, and a fox in Berkeley County tested positive for rabies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">If you believe you, someone you know, or your pets have come in contact with the bobcat, fox, skunk, raccoons, or another animal that potentially has rabies, please call DPH\u2019s 24-hour rabies reporting line at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/2025\/08\/21\/raccoons-multiple-upstate-counties-test-positive-rabies\/tel:(888)%20847-0902\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/2025\/08\/21\/raccoons-multiple-upstate-counties-test-positive-rabies\/tel:(888)%20847-0902\" target=\"_blank\">(888) 847-0902<\/a> (Select Option 2).<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WHNS. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FOUNTAIN INN, S.C. (FOX Carolina) &#8211; The South Carolina Department of Public Health said multiple animals across the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[15628,19788,67845,6265,97,61960,21176,39142,617,67846,14133,79,67844,8492,201],"class_list":["post-101695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-bobcat","tag-exposure","tag-fountain-inn","tag-fox","tag-health","tag-laurens-county","tag-pickens-county","tag-rabies","tag-raccoon","tag-safety-alert","tag-sc","tag-science","tag-skunk","tag-vaccine","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}