{"id":735213,"date":"2026-04-17T21:09:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T21:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/735213\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T21:09:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T21:09:21","slug":"rabid-raccoon-found-in-greenville-vaccination-clinic-to-be-held-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/735213\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabid raccoon found in Greenville, vaccination clinic to be held in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; The Pitt County Health Department has confirmed that a rabid raccoon was found in Greenville earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The department says the raccoon encountered two dogs near Elm Street on Tuesday. Those dogs were unaffected as they\u2019ve both been vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials say there is no danger to people or animals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Since 2021, Pitt County has had six other rabies cases involving a fox, a cat, and raccoons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The animal shelter is holding a $10 drive-thru rabies vaccination clinic at the health department for the first 200 pets from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on May 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">To learn more about the clinic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pittcountync.gov\/1138\/Rabies-Information\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.pittcountync.gov\/1138\/Rabies-Information\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; The Pitt County Health Department has confirmed that a rabid raccoon was found in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":735214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[27],"tags":[4749,40722,3425,23930,4653,17283,24655,4654,146719,623,22911,3033,17878,519,10823,7926,148914,303721,100081,3649,35058,159,22209,67,132,68,2040,16945,837,36907],"class_list":["post-735213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animal","tag-animal-shelter","tag-animals","tag-cat","tag-cats","tag-clinic","tag-dog","tag-dogs","tag-elm-street","tag-fox","tag-foxes","tag-greenville","tag-nc","tag-north-carolina","tag-pet","tag-pets","tag-pitt-county","tag-pitt-county-health-department","tag-rabid","tag-rabies","tag-raccoon","tag-science","tag-shelter","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-vaccination","tag-vaccine","tag-wildlife","tag-witn"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116422099889504793","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}