WHITESTOWN, NY (WUTR/WFXV/WPNY) -- The Oneida County Department of Health announced on Thursday that another bat that has tested positive for rabies has been found.

The Department of Health announced on Thursday, September 25, that a bat has tested positive for rabies in the town of Whitestown. The bat was sent to the New York State Department of Health's Wadsworth Center in Albany on Wednesday, September 2,4, and positive results were provided to the county the next day.

This is the fourth bat to test positive for rabies in the Utica area in the last two months. It is also the third city in the Utica area -- after South Utica and New Hartford -- to have a rabies-infected bat.

The Health Department said that four people and three cats were exposed to the bat. All four people received po

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