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NC traveling petting zoo goats test positive for rabies
Boston 25 News • • health
Key Points:
- Three baby goats from Farm Adventures Mobile Petting Zoo in Iredell County, North Carolina, tested positive for rabies, leading to their euthanasia to prevent disease spread.
- Health officials advised anyone who visited the petting zoo between July 28 and August 27 to contact their health department for potential precautions.
- The owner, Misty Love, attributed the rabies exposure to a skunk that bit the goats, which were too young for rabies vaccination and kept in isolation pens.
- Despite the goats not showing typical rabies symptoms initially, several became sick weeks after the exposure, prompting quarantine of the petting zoo.
- No human rabies cases have been reported from this incident, and the owner described the situation as a "nightmare" due to negative public reactions following media coverage.
