The Alabama Department of Public Health has issued an advisory to Coffee County residents after a horse tested positive for rabies this week.

The owners said they noticed the horse had scratch marks on her nose and she began rubbing and showing irritation there, according to a recent release.

They assumed the scratches came from a fox or raccoon that she had approached.

Over the next 72 hours, the horse stopped eating, her symptoms worsened, and she became violent and began attacking and biting herself.

The horse’s body was submitted to the J.B. Taylor Diagnostic Laboratory of the Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries in Elba where samples were taken and sent to the Alabama Department of Public Health Bureau of Clinical Laboratories in Mobile which confirmed that the horse w

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