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Did U hear?-Zoo Health Alert: Ep 3396 · Challenges of Faith Radio Program

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Challenges of Faith radio program. I'm Gary McCance,
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  Speaker 1: And now to today's topic. I know you heard about
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  Speaker 1: the health alert. Health alert? Yes, health alert. According to futurism,
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  Speaker 1: there's a nightmare going on as it relates to children's
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  Speaker 1: petting zoo, horrified to realize its adorable animals are carrying rabies.
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  Speaker 1: Say what? A traveling petting zoo has become the center
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  Speaker 1: of a mini health crisis in North Carolina. I know
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  Speaker 1: those of you who have lived in North Carolina heard
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  Speaker 1: about it, have you not? After recently hosting events for
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  Speaker 1: elderly people and school children, Several of its adorable baby
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  Speaker 1: goats tested positive for rabies. The New York Times reported
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  Speaker 1: in a situation that the zoo's owner is calling a nightmare.
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  Speaker 1: Now state officials are scrambling to get the word out,
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  Speaker 1: stressing how deadly the virus can be without immediate treatment.
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  Speaker 1: Rabies is almost always fatal in mammals, including people. unless
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  Speaker 1: medications to prevent infections are given before symptoms develop. The
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  Speaker 1: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services said in
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  Speaker 1: a statement heard in the New York Times, State health
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  Speaker 1: officials suspect that the goats were exposed to rabies by
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  Speaker 1: a skunk that infiltrated their pen in late July. The
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  Speaker 1: owner of the Harmony Bay Zoo, Misty Love, said, that
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  Speaker 1: she kept the goats in an isolated pen because they
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  Speaker 1: were too young to receive a rabies vaccine. Its devastating
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  Speaker 1: love told local broadcaster WSOC-TV in a statement posted to
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  Speaker 1: social media. The company explained that the skunk was discovered
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  Speaker 1: in the pen but was able to bite the goats
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  Speaker 1: before it was disposed of. Lab tests confirmed that three
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  Speaker 1: of the goats had the rabies virus on August 28.
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  Speaker 1: The state health department said a fourth goat is also
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  Speaker 1: suspected to have rabies, but was not tested. All of
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  Speaker 1: the goats were euthanized to prevent further spread, the petting
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  Speaker 1: zoo said. Parents who received warning were aghast. At first
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was a joke. One mother whose son
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  Speaker 1: saw the zoo's goats told ABC News that as quoted
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  Speaker 1: by WSOC-TV. Then reality set in as to how serious
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  Speaker 1: the situation was, and I panicked. Confirmed cases of humans
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  Speaker 1: being affected by rabies are exceedingly rare in the United States,
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  Speaker 1: with fewer than 10 deaths from the virus each year,
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  Speaker 1: according to the Center for Disease Control. Though the dangers
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  Speaker 1: it poses are so formidable that over a million people
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  Speaker 1: seek treatment for a possible rabies exposure annually. Most of
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  Speaker 1: the time, humans are exposed to virus from bats, raccoons, skunks,
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  Speaker 1: and foxes. Any rabies scares need to be acted on immediately.
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  Speaker 1: It can take weeks for symptoms to develop, but once
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  Speaker 1: they do, it's often too late. The health department called
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  Speaker 1: on anyone who visited the traveling zoo between July 28th
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  Speaker 1: and August 27th to contact local health officials to see
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  Speaker 1: if they need treatment. During that period, the zoo visited
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  Speaker 1: an assisted living center, a back-to-school event, and six private events.
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