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Health alert issued after animal rabies case is confirmed in Guilford County

Guilford County officials have issued a health alert after a case of rabies was identified. 

The county's public health division is alerting residents that a fox on Sedgewood Lane in Greensboro tested positive for rabies on Tuesday.

According to a news release, this is Guilford’s second confirmed case of animal rabies in 2024.

Officials are reminding residents that all domestic pets aged four months and older must be vaccinated for rabies, whether they live indoors or outside. Animals confined in outdoor fenced areas should also have current vaccinations.

The health alert included tips for preventing exposure such as avoiding direct contact with wildlife, dead or alive.

Avoid animals displaying unnatural behavior or fighting with each other. 

Any strays should be reported to Animal Control offices in Greensboro or High Point.

Neal Charnoff joined 88.5 WFDD as Morning Edition host in 2014. Raised in the Catskill region of upstate New York, he graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1983. Armed with a liberal arts degree, Neal was fully equipped to be a waiter. So he prolonged his arrested development bouncing around New York and L.A. until discovering that people enjoyed listening to his voice on the radio. After a few years doing overnight shifts at a local rock station, Neal spent most of his career at Vermont Public Radio. He began as host of a nightly jazz program, where he was proud to interview many of his idols, including Dave Brubeck and Sonny Rollins. Neal graduated to the news department, where he was the local host for NPR's All Things Considered for 14 years. In addition to news interviews and features, he originated and produced the Weekly Conversation On The Arts, as well as VPR Backstage, which profiled theater productions around the state. He contributed several stories to NPR, including coverage of a devastating ice storm. Neal now sees the value of that liberal arts degree, and approaches life with the knowledge that all subjects and all art forms are connected to each other. Neal and his wife Judy are enjoying exploring North Carolina and points south. They would both be happy to never experience a Vermont winter again.

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