TAZEWELL, Va. — The Tazewell County Health Department has received confirmation of the area’s eighth rabid animal this year after a miniature horse from the Goose Greek Estates area of North Tazewell tested positive for the disease Thursday.
According to Brian Stanley, environmental health manager of the Cumberland Plateau Health District, a local veterinarian notified the Health Department that the miniature horse died late in the evening on Friday, Dec. 3 or early morning on Saturday, Dec. 4, with possible signs and symptoms of rabies infection.
The health department is currently investigating any incidents of humans or other animals exposed to the virus as well as how the horse contacted the virus in the first place. Read more…
