North Carolina petting zoo visitors exposed to rabies after contact with infected goats

Multiple petting zoo visitors, including children, potentially exposed to rabies and required to undergo post-exposure prophylaxis treatment.

In North Carolina, a traveling petting zoo became an unlikely vector for one of humanity's oldest and most feared diseases, when three baby goats tested positive for rabies after visitors — many of them children — had fed and handled the animals by hand. The discovery arrived after the fact, as it so often does with invisible threats, leaving health officials to work backward through time, tracing the paths of families who had sought only a simple afternoon of wonder. What was meant as a gentle encounter between the young and the natural world now requires those same families to navigate a med

North Carolina petting zoo visitors exposed to rabies after contact with infected goats

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