{"id":74231,"date":"2019-09-05T19:09:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T01:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/san-juan-basin-public-health-reports-rabid-bat\/"},"modified":"2019-09-06T01:09:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T01:09:59","slug":"san-juan-basin-public-health-reports-rabid-bat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/san-juan-basin-public-health-reports-rabid-bat\/","title":{"rendered":"San Juan Basin Public Health reports rabid bat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=30a9d620-1464-4993-90df-b71b03b710ba&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"San Juan Basin Public Health tested 26 bats in La Plata and Archuleta counties during spring and summer, and one tested positive for rabies.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">San Juan Basin Public Health tested 26 bats in La Plata and Archuleta counties during spring and summer, and one tested positive for rabies.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>San Juan Basin Public Health reports a bat in the region has tested positive for rabies.<\/p>\n<p>Rabies is a fatal viral disease that spreads from rabid animals to people and pets through bites and scratches, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n<p>The health department tested 26 bats in La Plata and Archuleta counties during spring and summer, and one bat tested positive for rabies, according to a news release. Most bats do not have rabies; however, contact with bats should be avoided. The only way to determine if a bat has rabies is through a laboratory test.<\/p>\n<p>For information about how to keep bats out of a home, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/rabies\/bats\/management\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cdc.gov\/rabies\/bats\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For information about how to capture a bat for testing, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2k5FGBu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2k5FGBu<\/a>. For questions, call SJBPH at 247-5702.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:mshinn@durangoherald.com\">mshinn@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>and Archuleta counties tested 26 bats<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[289,28,61,1484],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-74231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-disease","tag-headlines","tag-health","tag-illness"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74231"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=74231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}