{"id":191662,"date":"2025-09-30T06:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T06:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/191662\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T06:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T06:30:10","slug":"2-people-exposed-to-rabid-fox-in-westmoreland-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/191662\/","title":{"rendered":"2 People Exposed to Rabid Fox in Westmoreland | 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>WESTMORELAND, N.Y. &#8212; A fox in Westmoreland has tested positive for rabies.<\/p>\n<p>The positive rabies test was received on Sept. 29, according to the Oneida County Health Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two people exposed to the fox have received post-exposure treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Residents are advised to watch for signs of rabies in animals, such as unusual behavior, excessive drooling, or getting too close.<\/p>\n<p>If you encounter an animal displaying these signs, avoid it and contact your local animal control officer.<\/p>\n<p>The Oneida County Health Department didn&#8217;t release where exactly the fox was located.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WKTV WESTMORELAND, N.Y. &#8212; A fox in Westmoreland has tested positive for rabies. The positive rabies test was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[6265,97,107885,39408,39142,111627],"class_list":["post-191662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-fox","tag-health","tag-oneida-county","tag-rabid-fox","tag-rabies","tag-westmoreland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191662","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=191662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191662\/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=191662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}