>>2784248Scabies is still a thing in technologically primitive countries.
>>2784249Checked. While it is possible to contact scabies I'd you live in densely packed conditions with a lot of people, you still get it from other animals like mice.
My grandfather was very poor and his family had like 14 children.... So it is a possibility, but I would guess that the sanitary living conditions of him and his family were better than the ones of their goats.