New Bedford officials are warning residents around Buttonwood Park to vaccinate their pets after a raccoon tested positive for rabies. The infected raccoon has since been euthanized by animal control.

Health officials are encouraging New Bedford residents to make sure their pets' rabies vaccinations are up to date after a raccoon found in Buttonwood Park tested positive for the deadly viral disease.

Lewis County Public Health officials announced that t a raccoon in the Town of Lowville has tested positive for rabies. According to public health officials, it is the fourth raccoon to test positive in Lewis County this year,

State health officials have notified the city that a raccoon found in the Buttonwood Park area has tested positive for rabies.

The New Bedford mayor's office said Thursday that a raccoon found in the Buttonwood Park area tested positive for rabies.

LOWVILLE, N.Y. -- A raccoon from the Town of Lowville has tested positive for rabies. Lewis County Public Health has been notified by the New York State Department of Health about a raccoon in Lowville that has received a positive test result.

A racoon found in the area of New Bedford’s Buttonwood Park has tested positive for rabies, just days after a woman was bit by a rabid coyote in Dartmouth.