{"id":4799,"date":"2019-11-18T15:54:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T20:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=4799"},"modified":"2019-11-18T15:54:54","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T20:54:54","slug":"15-year-old-bitten-by-a-raccoon-in-the-10th-case-of-rabies-confirmed-in-polk-county-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2019\/11\/18\/15-year-old-bitten-by-a-raccoon-in-the-10th-case-of-rabies-confirmed-in-polk-county-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"15-year-old bitten by a raccoon in the 10th case of rabies confirmed in Polk County in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"618\" height=\"410\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/man-attacked-by-raccoon-in-own-backyard.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/man-attacked-by-raccoon-in-own-backyard.jpg 618w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/man-attacked-by-raccoon-in-own-backyard-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Thursday, November 14, 2019, PCSO Animal Control\nresponded to the Providence neighborhood in Davenport, in reference to a\n15-year-old boy who was bitten by a sick raccoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The boy\u2019s grandmother told Animal Control that he was bitten\non the hand after he saw the sick raccoon and he tried to help it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The raccoon was sent to the state laboratory in Tampa to be tested for rabies and was confirmed two days later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The child\u2019s grandmother was notified of the results and she\nindicated that the boy would be receiving medical treatment for exposure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is imperative that children are told to avoid animals\nlike bats, raccoons, and foxes out in the wild, and let me be clear&#8212;these\nanimals are wildlife. If you see one in distress, leave it alone and contact\nPolk County Animal Control immediately.\u201d&nbsp;-Grady Judd, Sheriff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So far this year, the ten rabies cases in Polk County have\nconsisted of five bats and five raccoons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2018, there were only three cases of rabies confirmed in\nPolk County.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, November 14, 2019, PCSO Animal Control responded to the Providence neighborhood in Davenport, in reference to a 15-year-old boy who was bitten by a sick raccoon. The boy\u2019s&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sheriffs-corner"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799","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=4799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}