Rabid goats at North Carolina petting zoo spark health alert

In Durham County, North Carolina, four baby goats at a traveling petting zoo have tested positive for rabies, drawing a quiet afternoon's innocent pleasure into the shadow of one of humanity's oldest and most feared diseases. Rabies, nearly always fatal once symptoms emerge, is nonetheless preventable — but only if those exposed act swiftly, before the virus completes its slow journey to the nervous system. Health officials are now racing against that biological clock, tracing the mobile zoo's path across the county to reach every visitor who may have held, petted, or been nuzzled by the infec