{"id":76686,"date":"2025-06-24T06:44:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T06:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=76686"},"modified":"2025-06-24T06:44:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T06:44:36","slug":"bat-found-with-rare-rabies-like-virus-in-uk-back-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/24\/bat-found-with-rare-rabies-like-virus-in-uk-back-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Bat found with rare rabies-like virus in UK back garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1HgNrI.img?w=534&amp;h=401&amp;m=6\" alt=\"The transmission of rabies from animals is 'extremely uncommon', say authorities. Stock image (Getty Images\/iStockphoto)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An injured bat that was rescued from a back garden\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/travel\/news-and-advice\/rabies-travel-advice-nhs-ukhsa-b2772930.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">tested positive for an extremely<\/a>\u00a0rare\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/rabies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">rabies<\/a>-like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/virus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">virus<\/a>.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/bat-found-with-rare-rabies-like-virus-in-uk-back-garden\/ar-AA1HgL6S?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=0a406aa7d28e4f298d631eef2a90ad77&amp;ei=92\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>An injured bat that was rescued from a back garden\u00a0tested positive for an extremely\u00a0rare\u00a0rabies-like\u00a0virus.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-76686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/bats-in-lab.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76687,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76686\/revisions\/76687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}