{"id":703390,"date":"2018-03-30T07:19:44","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T12:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=703390"},"modified":"2018-04-01T04:58:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T09:58:28","slug":"four-kilgore-college-women-treated-for-rabies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=703390","title":{"rendered":"Four Kilgore College Women Treated for Rabies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/03\/Kilgore_College-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-703391\" \/>KILGORE &#8212; In a followup to a story we brought you earlier this week, four young women at Kilgore College are getting a series of rabies shots after they picked up what they thought was a sick, baby bat crawling on the ground. It turned out to be a rabid, full grown brown bat. BJ Owen, Director of Special Services for the City of Kilgore said the  teeth are so sharp and tiny that&#8217;s it&#8217;s possible to be bitten and not know. The women were told it would be in their best interest to get a series of rabies shots. Owen says there are estimates that indicate about half of the bat population is infected with rabies but don&#8217;t show symptoms and don&#8217;t get sick. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KILGORE &#8212; In a followup to a story we brought you earlier this week, four young women at Kilgore College are getting a series of rabies shots after they picked up what they thought was a sick, baby bat crawling on the ground. It turned out to be a rabid, full grown brown bat. BJ &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=703390\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Four Kilgore College Women Treated for Rabies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":703391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 18:04:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=703390"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703431,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703390\/revisions\/703431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/703391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=703390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=703390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=703390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}