{"id":145168,"date":"2025-09-09T22:59:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T22:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/145168\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T22:59:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T22:59:06","slug":"raccoons-skunks-test-positive-for-rabies-in-jefferson-lewis-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/145168\/","title":{"rendered":"Raccoons, skunks test positive for rabies in Jefferson, Lewis counties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) &#8211; Skunks and racoons in Jefferson and Lewis counties have tested positive for rabies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Jefferson County Public Health said a rabid raccoon was located on Wellesley Island, and the rabid skunk was found in the village of Glen Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">So far in 2025, two foxes, a bobcat, a bat, and ten other raccoons have also tested positive for rabies in Jefferson County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Meanwhile, Lewis County Public Health reported that a skunk in the town of Lowville and a raccoon in the town of Martinsburg have tested positive for rabies. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">There was no human or domestic animal contact with the rabid skunks and raccoons in either county. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">The Department of Health reminds you to avoid contact with unknown animals, including possible stray pets, as they may not have been vaccinated against rabies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">They also encourage people to keep their pets\u2019 vaccinations current, even for strictly indoor pets. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">The Jefferson County Public Health Service is hosting a rabies vaccination clinic on Thursday, October 16, from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jcphs.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.jcphs.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.jcphs.org<\/a> for more information and other clinic dates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">The next rabies clinic in Lewis County is scheduled for Thursday, September 18, 2025, from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Leroy Nichols Building at the Lewis County Fairgrounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WWNY. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) &#8211; Skunks and racoons in Jefferson and Lewis counties have tested positive for rabies.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[90012,13615,90011,9043,90013,49690,90015,39142,617,79,67844,90014,90010,201,76078],"class_list":["post-145168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-16-cases","tag-department-of-health","tag-glen-park","tag-jefferson-county","tag-jefferson-county-public-health-service","tag-new-york-state-department-of-health","tag-october-16","tag-rabies","tag-raccoon","tag-science","tag-skunk","tag-vaccination-clinic","tag-wellesley-island","tag-wildlife","tag-wwny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145168","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=145168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}