{"id":590500,"date":"2026-04-17T21:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T21:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/590500\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T21:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T21:38:10","slug":"rabid-raccoon-found-in-greenville-vaccination-clinic-to-be-held-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/590500\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabid raccoon found in Greenville, vaccination clinic to be held in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; The Pitt County Health Department has confirmed that a rabid raccoon was found in Greenville earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The department says the raccoon encountered two dogs near Elm Street on Tuesday. Those dogs were unaffected as they\u2019ve both been vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials say there is no danger to people or animals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Since 2021, Pitt County has had six other rabies cases involving a fox, a cat, and raccoons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The animal shelter is holding a $10 drive-thru rabies vaccination clinic at the health department for the first 200 pets from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on May 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">To learn more about the clinic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pittcountync.gov\/1138\/Rabies-Information\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.pittcountync.gov\/1138\/Rabies-Information\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; The Pitt County Health Department has confirmed that a rabid raccoon was found in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[14144,68483,1147,65451,1067,44186,7474,2681,160041,6265,1146,64218,2255,2256,18787,1068,121124,257814,46574,39142,617,79,14860,19784,8492,201,64925],"class_list":["post-590500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animal","tag-animal-shelter","tag-animals","tag-cat","tag-cats","tag-clinic","tag-dog","tag-dogs","tag-elm-street","tag-fox","tag-foxes","tag-greenville","tag-nc","tag-north-carolina","tag-pet","tag-pets","tag-pitt-county","tag-pitt-county-health-department","tag-rabid","tag-rabies","tag-raccoon","tag-science","tag-shelter","tag-vaccination","tag-vaccine","tag-wildlife","tag-witn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590500","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=590500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}