diff --git a/extension/WebJobs.Extensions.RabbitMQ/Trigger/RabbitMQListener.cs b/extension/WebJobs.Extensions.RabbitMQ/Trigger/RabbitMQListener.cs
index a437732..7ed8fd8 100644
--- a/extension/WebJobs.Extensions.RabbitMQ/Trigger/RabbitMQListener.cs
+++ b/extension/WebJobs.Extensions.RabbitMQ/Trigger/RabbitMQListener.cs
@@ -85,38 +85,44 @@ public Task StartAsync(CancellationToken cancellationToken)
         this.rabbitMQModel.BasicQos(0, this.prefetchCount, false);  // Non zero prefetchSize doesn't work (tested upto 5.2.0) and will throw NOT_IMPLEMENTED exception
         this.consumer = new EventingBasicConsumer(this.rabbitMQModel.Model);
 
-        this.consumer.Received += async (model, ea) =>
+        this.consumer.Received += async (model, args) =>
         {
-            using Activity activity = StartActivity(ea);
-
-            var input = new TriggeredFunctionData() { TriggerValue = ea };
+            // The RabbitMQ client rents an array from the ArrayPool to hold a copy of the message body, and passes it
+            // to the listener. Once all event handlers are executed, the array is returned back to the pool so that the
+            // memory can be reused for future messages for that connection. However, since our event handler is async,
+            // the very first await statement i.e. the call to TryExecuteAsync below causes the event handler invocation
+            // to complete and lets the RabbitMQ client release the memory. This led to message body corruption when the
+            // message is republished (see: https://github.com/Azure/azure-functions-rabbitmq-extension/issues/211).
+            //
+            // We chose to copy the message body instead of having a new 'args' object as there is only one event
+            // handler registered for the consumer so there should be no side-effects.
+            args.Body = args.Body.ToArray();
+
+            using Activity activity = StartActivity(args);
+
+            var input = new TriggeredFunctionData() { TriggerValue = args };
             FunctionResult result = await this.executor.TryExecuteAsync(input, cancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false);
 
             if (!result.Succeeded)
             {
-                ea.BasicProperties.Headers ??= new Dictionary<string, object>();
-                ea.BasicProperties.Headers.TryGetValue(RequeueCountHeaderName, out object headerValue);
+                args.BasicProperties.Headers ??= new Dictionary<string, object>();
+                args.BasicProperties.Headers.TryGetValue(RequeueCountHeaderName, out object headerValue);
                 int requeueCount = Convert.ToInt32(headerValue, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture) + 1;
 
                 if (requeueCount >= 5)
                 {
                     // Add message to dead letter exchange.
                     this.logger.LogDebug("Requeue count exceeded: rejecting message");
-                    this.rabbitMQModel.BasicReject(ea.DeliveryTag, false);
+                    this.rabbitMQModel.BasicReject(args.DeliveryTag, false);
                     return;
                 }
 
                 this.logger.LogDebug("Republishing message");
-                ea.BasicProperties.Headers[RequeueCountHeaderName] = requeueCount;
-
-                // RabbitMQ client library seems to be reusing the memory pointed by 'ea.Body' for subsequent
-                // message-received events. This led to https://github.com/Azure/azure-functions-rabbitmq-extension/issues/211.
-                // Hence, pass a copy of 'ea.Body' to method 'BasicPublish' instead of the object itself to prevent
-                // sharing of the memory and possibility of memory corruption.
-                this.rabbitMQModel.BasicPublish(exchange: string.Empty, routingKey: this.queueName, ea.BasicProperties, ea.Body.ToArray());
+                args.BasicProperties.Headers[RequeueCountHeaderName] = requeueCount;
+                this.rabbitMQModel.BasicPublish(exchange: string.Empty, routingKey: this.queueName, args.BasicProperties, args.Body);
             }
 
-            this.rabbitMQModel.BasicAck(ea.DeliveryTag, false);
+            this.rabbitMQModel.BasicAck(args.DeliveryTag, false);
         };
 
         this.consumerTag = this.rabbitMQModel.BasicConsume(queue: this.queueName, autoAck: false, consumer: this.consumer);