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FAYETTEVILLE, North Carolina ( WRAL ) — Cumberland County Animal Services confirmed a case of rabies in a fox Thursday.

A home inspector was completing an inspection of a crawl space under a home off Garden Court in Fayetteville when he was bitten by an adult fox.

Animal services confined, captured and euthanized the fox. The fox’s remains were sent to the N.C. State Public Health Lab, where it was tested positive for rabies.

The home inspector is receiving medical treatment.

This is the second case of confirmed rabies found in Cumberland County in the last two months.

It is the third reported in the last month in the Triangle, after a man strangled a coyote and later tested positive for rabies in Roxboro and a wild fox found in R

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