{"id":9934,"date":"2025-07-23T10:10:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T15:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9934"},"modified":"2025-07-23T10:10:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T15:10:59","slug":"rabies-once-eradicated-in-this-long-island-county-now-declared-a-public-health-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/07\/23\/rabies-once-eradicated-in-this-long-island-county-now-declared-a-public-health-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabies, once \u2018eradicated&#8217; in this Long Island county, now declared a public health threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/long-island\/rabies-alert-nassau-county-public-health-threat-ncdoh\/6342872\/\">NBC New York<\/a> Authorities in one&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/nbcnewyork.com\/tag\/long-island\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Long Island, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Long Island<\/a>&nbsp;county are issuing an imminent public health threat over a concerning rise in the number of cases of rabies, a disease local health officials say they eradicated nearly a decade ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since July 2024,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/nbcnewyork.com\/tag\/nassau-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Nassau County, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nassau County<\/a>&nbsp;has confirmed 25 rabid animals, including raccoons and feral cats, across multiple communities, health officials say. They note the cases mark a &#8220;significant resurgence&#8221; of rabies, which had previously been eradicated in Nassau County in 2016 following aggressive control efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Current surveillance data shows that the virus is now circulating in the county.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health officials say they&#8217;ll continue their already in place Raccoon Rabies Control Program this fall as part of a comprehensive effort to mitigate the spread. Rabies is a viral disease spread to humans and pets primarily through bites, scratches, or salivary contact to open wounds, eyes, nose, or mouth, from an infected animal.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"WmzQE PdlZtJvDU\"><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC New York Authorities in one&nbsp;Long Island&nbsp;county are issuing an imminent public health threat over a concerning rise in the number of cases of rabies, a disease local health officials say they eradicated nearly a decade ago. Since July 2024,&nbsp;Nassau County&nbsp;has confirmed 25 rabid animals, including raccoons and feral cats, across multiple communities, health officials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-infectious-diseases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9935,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9934\/revisions\/9935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}