{"id":182804,"date":"2025-09-26T10:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T10:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/182804\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T10:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T10:47:08","slug":"4-people-3-cats-exposed-to-rabid-bat-in-whitestown-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/182804\/","title":{"rendered":"4 People, 3 Cats Exposed to Rabid Bat in Whitestown | Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Rabid Animal Reported\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/65382fd982e82.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>WKTV<\/p>\n<p>WHITESTOWN, N.Y. &#8212; A bat in Whitestown has tested positive for rabies.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Oneida County Health Department, the bat was tested, with results confirmed on Sept. 25.<\/p>\n<p>Four people and three cats were exposed.<\/p>\n<p>The individuals received post-exposure treatment and the cats were given booster rabies vaccinations.<\/p>\n<p>The exact location where the bat was located was not released by the health department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Residents are urged to recognize signs of rabies, which include unusual behavior, drooling or foaming at the mouth.<\/p>\n<p>If you encounter a wild or stray animal displaying these signs, avoid approaching it and contact local animal control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WKTV WHITESTOWN, N.Y. &#8212; A bat in Whitestown has tested positive for rabies. According to the Oneida County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[30891,97,107885,107886,46505,39142,107887],"class_list":["post-182804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-bat","tag-health","tag-oneida-county","tag-oneida-county-health-department","tag-rabid-bat","tag-rabies","tag-whitestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182804","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=182804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}