4 baby goats test positive for rabies at petting zoo in North Carolina

Health officials said the goats were 'most likely exposed to rabies by a skunk that had entered the pen where they were kept in late July.'

At least three baby goats at a North Carolina petting zoo have tested positive for rabies and a fourth is believed to have contracted the virus.

Rabid goats at North Carolina petting zoo may have exposed visitors  USA Today

MediaNews Group/Boulder Daily Ca / David Jennings, Getty Images North Carolina health officials are warning visitors to a mobile petting zoo that some of the animals they came into contact with may have had rabies. Three baby goats from Farm Adventures have tested positive for rabies and a fourth was assumed to be infe

According to state health officials, the animals were likely exposed in late July when a skunk entered their pen and bit them.

Farm Adventures said four of its baby goats had contracted rabies.

Baby goats at Farm Adventures, a North Carolina mobile petting zoo, tested positive for rabies after a skunk entered their pen and bit them.

Four baby goats from a North Carolina mobile petting zoo tested positive for rabies and were euthanized, and health officials are asking anyone who may have had contact with them to reach out for possible treatment.

Farm Adventures of Harmony, N.C., owned the goats, state health officials said. It was unclear how many people might have been exposed to them since late July.

Multiple baby goats had rabies at North Carolina mobile petting zoo, attendees urged to contact local health officials  CNN