SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A skunk that bit a Sacramento Zoo visitor may have had rabies, leading officials to capture and euthanize multiple other skunks in the area.
A release from Sacramento County said a skunk that was behaving aggressively bit the visitor on Oct. 15. Crews with the zoo captured and euthanized three nearby skunks in the Land Park area and submitted them to the Sacramento County Public Health Laboratories for rabies testing.
“That’s a very unusual thing to happen. And in talking with the people, it looked like this was a very abnormal incident,” said Dr. Jenessa Gjeltema, lead veterinarian at the zoo…