{"id":62614,"date":"2025-08-06T12:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T12:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/62614\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T12:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T12:41:09","slug":"rabid-bat-discovered-at-beavertail-state-park-in-jamestown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/62614\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabid bat discovered at Beavertail State Park in Jamestown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rhode Island Department of Health announced a rabid bat was found in Beavertail State Park in Jamestown. <\/p>\n<p>Health officials said the injured bat was located on July 30. <\/p>\n<p>The bat was found by a worker near the Lighthouse Building. <\/p>\n<p>Anyone who may have had direct contact with the bat should immediately call RIDOH\u2019s Center for Acute Infectious Disease Epidemiology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rhode Island Department of Health announced a rabid bat was found in Beavertail State Park in Jamestown.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[46506,8607,46507,46509,46510,46505,46508,46511,79,201],"class_list":["post-62614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-beavertail-state-park","tag-health-officials","tag-jamestown","tag-july-30","tag-lighthouse-building","tag-rabid-bat","tag-rhode-island-department-of-health","tag-ridoh","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62614","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=62614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}