The Texas Department of State Health Services reported Crosby County had its first documented rabies case in 47 years in a horse.
The Texas Department of State Health Services reported Crosby County had its first documented rabies case in 47 years in a horse.
This was the third horse rabies case this year and the 30th horse case in the 41 counties in DSHS’ Region 1 to date, said Karen McDonald, DSHS Zoonosis control specialist. Like the horse in Crosby County, the other horse rabies cases were related to a strain of rabies originating from a skunk.
In his 32 years as a veterinarian, Kody Kothmann of Caprock Veterinary Clinic in Lubbock said he had never encountered a horse with rabies.
The horse was a white 3-year-old Morgan mare named Pearl that belonged to Stephanie Jones of Lubbock. Pearl and another horse were kept on a ranch south of Lorenzo, but on Nov. 15, Stephanie noticed her horse was acting strangely, said her father, John. Read More…
