A mountain goat put down near 7 Mile Haines Highway last week had symptoms of contagious ecthyma, a disease caused by a parapox virus that came from domestic sheep, according to the Department of Fish and Game.
The female goat, three to four years old, was near death from starvation because the scabby pox lesions involving her lips, nose and eyelids likely made it hard for her to find food or browse. She also had…