{"id":829337,"date":"2026-08-29T03:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T03:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/829337\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T03:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T03:16:08","slug":"four-baby-goats-test-positive-for-rabies-at-nc-petting-zoo-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/829337\/","title":{"rendered":"Four baby goats test positive for rabies at NC petting zoo :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DAVIDSON COUNTY, N.C. &#8211;\u00a0The Davidson County Health Department is warning of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wxii12.com\/article\/lexington-rabies-exposure-petting-zoo-goats\/73557180\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">potential rabies exposure<\/a> connected to a traveling petting zoo at a community event earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Health officials said four goats that were part of the petting zoo at the Community Connections event at Breeden Amphitheater in Lexington on Aug. 1 tested positive for rabies.<\/p>\n<p>The health department said anyone who attended the event and held a baby goat may have been exposed and should contact the department for a risk assessment.<\/p>\n<p>Farm Adventures, the traveling petting zoo that organized the event, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/people\/Farm-Adventures\/61582810971161\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said the goats were euthanized to prevent any further spread of the virus<\/a>. The zoo said the goats were bitten by a skunk, which led to the rabies diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe affected animals, our four precious baby goats, have been euthanized to prevent further spread,\u201d the zoo said in a Facebook post. \u201cWe will be closely monitoring our remaining animals under the guidelines provided by health officials.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The goats&#8217; names were Molly, Maggie, Cow and Uno. Farm Adventures is based in Iredell County.<\/p>\n<p>A call center has been set up at 336-242-2371.<\/p>\n<p>The phone line will be open:<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFriday, Aug. 28, until 8 p.m.Saturday, Aug. 29, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Health officials said additional information will be released if the call center is needed Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DAVIDSON COUNTY, N.C. &#8211;\u00a0The Davidson County Health Department is warning of a potential rabies exposure connected to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1147,97,39142],"class_list":["post-829337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-animals","tag-health","tag-rabies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}