{"id":1084,"date":"2019-07-26T21:15:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T21:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2019-07-26T21:16:06","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T21:16:06","slug":"the-sixth-case-of-rabies-in-2019-confirmed-in-polk-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2019\/07\/26\/the-sixth-case-of-rabies-in-2019-confirmed-in-polk-county\/","title":{"rendered":"The sixth case of rabies in 2019 confirmed in Polk County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/rabies_p3.jpg?resize=800%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1085\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/rabies_p3.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/rabies_p3.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/rabies_p3.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> The Polk County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Animal Control Section confirmed on Friday, July 26, 2019, the sixth positive rabies case in Polk County for the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Wednesday, July 24, 2019, PCSO received a call from a Waverly dog owner whose boxer had a bat in its mouth. When the boxer dropped the bat, the woman killed the bat with a shovel.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Animal Control collected the bat and sent it away for rabies testing.\u00a0The bat was confirmed positive for rabies two days later.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The dog was currently vaccinated for rabies and obtained a rabies booster.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There have been five prior confirmed rabies cases in Polk County so far this year.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Polk County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Animal Control Section confirmed on Friday, July 26, 2019, the sixth positive rabies case in Polk County for the year.\u00a0 On Wednesday, July 24, 2019,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}