{"id":256416,"date":"2025-10-28T10:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T10:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/256416\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T10:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T10:37:08","slug":"multiple-raccoons-found-to-have-rabies-in-slate-belt-area-police-say-slate-belt-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/256416\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple raccoons found to have rabies in Slate Belt area, police say | Slate Belt Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in the Slate Belt area of Northampton County are warning residents about multiple raccoons that were found to have rabies.<\/p>\n<p>There have been approximately five cases of rabies in the area within the past few weeks, according to a Facebook post from the Slate Belt Regional Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Police note that rabies can be spread to feral cats and other wildlife easily.<\/p>\n<p>Do not attempt to touch, approach, or trap any animal behaving oddly, and do not feed wildlife, police say.<\/p>\n<p>Police say people should monitor the feeding of outdoor cats. Never leave the food out overnight, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities in the Slate Belt area of Northampton County are warning residents about multiple raccoons that were found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[71410,39142,120568,79,105417,201,138875],"class_list":["post-256416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-northampton-county","tag-rabies","tag-raccoons","tag-science","tag-slate-belt","tag-wildlife","tag-zoonotic-disease"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256416","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=256416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}