BERLIN, MD – Officials are warning locals about a rabid raccoon found in the area.<\/p>\n
The Worcester County Health Department says a confirmed rabid raccoon was found near Williams Street.<\/p>\n
Officials say if you, your family, or your pets have had contact with the rabid raccoon, contact Worcester County Health Department\u2019s Office of Environmental Health immediately at 410-352-3234. Contact includes bites, scratches or other direct contact to persons or pets.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Health officials say to immediately report sick animals and those acting in an unusual manner, as there may or will be additional rabid animals in this area.<\/p>\n
Pet owners are also urged to make sure their pets are up to date on rabies vaccinations and to keep pets indoors when possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN, MD – Officials are warning locals about a rabid raccoon found in the area. The Worcester County…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[8198,46574,39142,617,79,201,46575],"class_list":["post-62763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-berlin","tag-rabid","tag-rabies","tag-raccoon","tag-science","tag-wildlife","tag-worcester-county-health-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62763","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=62763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}