{"id":796469,"date":"2026-08-01T01:09:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T01:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/796469\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T01:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T01:09:13","slug":"rabid-racoon-found-in-southern-lenoir-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/796469\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabid racoon found in southern Lenoir County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">The above video is our WITN+ livestream and may not reflect the content in this story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">LENOIR COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; A rabid raccoon has been found in Lenoir County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Lenoir County Health Department says the racoon was discovered near Live Oak Hog County Road in Deep Run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Tests done by the state confirmed the animal tested positive for rabies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The health department reminds people:<\/p>\n<p>Tell the health department, the hospital, or your doctor if you have been scratched or bitten by or have handled an animal that could be rabidDo not approach or touch a wild animal or an animal that could be rabidEnsure pets are to to date on rabies vaccinationsKeep pets away from stray or wild animals<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The above video is our WITN+ livestream and may not reflect the content in this story. LENOIR COUNTY,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[3237,338035,39142,617,79,201],"class_list":["post-796469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-county","tag-lenoir","tag-rabies","tag-raccoon","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796469","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=796469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}