The horse’s owners near Stuarts Draft had, in January, asked Cromer to investigate why it wouldn’t eat or drink and seemed depressed. It wasn’t until the horse began to twitch and nip at him days later that the owners agreed to have it euthanized.
Lab results confirmed the horse had rabies.
“This was dumb rabies,” Cromer said Wednesday, differentiating the horse’s behavior from ones with “furious” rabies.
“The horse was not aggressive like you see sometimes … where they’ll pace the fences and attack the animals,” he said.
Whatever the symptoms, the neurological disease is fatal and contagious, easily spread by saliva. The owner and his granddaughter underwent post-exposure treatment — a series of expensive shots — to prevent potential infection. Read more…
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