{"617726":{"#nid":"617726","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Campus Urged to Be On Alert For Feral Animals","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech is warning the campus community to avoid a sector of the campus where feral animals have taken up residence.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELast week, three students encountered a fox on the pathway behind the Molecular Science and Engineering (MOSE) Building near the Georgia Tech Track and Field facility. Two were injured during the encounter.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter the animal was captured and sent to state officials for testing, Georgia Tech learned the fox tested positive for rabies. The injured students have been receiving proper medical treatment.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOver the weekend, a fourth student had a similar encounter with a different fox in the same vicinity.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech is asking for our community to avoid the area behind the MOSE building, the pathway, and the track facility out of an abundance of caution.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis second fox has not yet been captured. Campus officials believe there may be several other foxes and each could carry rabies. The Georgia Department of Natural Resources will be dispatching a field officer to assist local animal control officials in the capture and removal of the foxes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIt is critically important to seek medical treatment after an encounter with a potentially rabid animal. Early symptoms of rabies in humans are non-specific and may include fever, headache, and fatigue. Left untreated the virus can cause difficulty swallowing, paralysis, and even death. These symptoms may never occur or may occur only at the very last stages of the disease.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe rabies virus is transmitted in the infected animal\u0026rsquo;s saliva. In rare cases, rabies is spread when infectious material from a rabid animal, such as saliva, comes into contact with mucous membranes such as the eyes, nose, mouth, or a wound.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIf you see a fox anywhere on campus, contact the Georgia Tech Police Department at 404-894-2500.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech is asking for our community to avoid the area behind the MOSE building, the pathway, and the track facility out of an abundance of caution.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech is asking for our community to avoid the area behind the MOSE building, the pathway, and the track facility out of an abundance of caution."}],"uid":"28058","created_gmt":"2019-02-12 22:47:41","changed_gmt":"2019-02-12 22:50:19","author":"Steven Norris","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-02-12T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-02-12T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"617727":{"id":"617727","type":"image","title":"Campus Urged to Be On Alert For Feral Animals","body":null,"created":"1550011772","gmt_created":"2019-02-12 22:49:32","changed":"1550011969","gmt_changed":"2019-02-12 22:52:49","alt":"Map of feral animal encounters ","file":{"fid":"235133","name":"thumbnail_foxmap-2-01.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/thumbnail_foxmap-2-01.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/thumbnail_foxmap-2-01.png","mime":"image\/png","size":378454,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/thumbnail_foxmap-2-01.png?itok=uKlb3yAE"}}},"media_ids":["617727"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"246","name":"Georgia Institute of Technology"},{"id":"932","name":"Fox"},{"id":"172064","name":"rabies"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELance Wallace\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDirector of Media Relations\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Institute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lance.wallace@comm.gatech.edu "],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}