{"id":729787,"date":"2026-06-27T19:50:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T19:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/729787\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T19:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T19:50:17","slug":"rabid-raccoon-found-in-new-bern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/729787\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabid raccoon found in New Bern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW BERN, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; A rabid racoon has been found in New Bern.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Craven County Health Department says the animal was discovered at the corner of Simmons Street and Elizabeth Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Anyone bitten or exposed to the raccoon\u2019s saliva should contact your doctor or the health department for a rabies risk assessment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Health experts say a common mistake pet owners make is using bare hands to check their pet for bites after an encounter with a raccoon or fox. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">They say if your pet is bitten, leave the wound alone and take the pet to a veterinarian.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW BERN, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; A rabid racoon has been found in New Bern. The Craven County Health&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[285496,3258,46574,617,79,201],"class_list":["post-729787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-bern","tag-new","tag-rabid","tag-raccoon","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729787","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=729787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}