By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency is looking for anybody that may have come into contact with a live bat that tested positive for rabies and...

The Santa Barbara County Public Health Department is seeking the public’s help in locating a person believed to be exposed to a rabid bat earlier this week in Santa Barbara. The person is described as...

Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a health advisory Friday concerning a possible rabies exposure. They report investigating the circumstances surrounding a rabid bat in the...

Researchers from Singapore’s Duke-NUS Medical School, in collaboration with scientists in China, have identified and characterised a new genus of filovirus from a Rousettus bat in China. Their findings...

Utah public health officials have confirmed a Utah resident died from rabies earlier this month. It is suspected exposure to a bat was the source of infection. This is the first Utah resident to die from...

Officials with Public Health – Seattle & King County are reporting a bat found near Husky Stadium at the University of Washington (UW) last Saturday was rabies positive and at least one person...

A team of researchers in the United States and Uganda has identified a novel coronavirus in a bat from Uganda that is similar to the one causing Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in people, giving...

Last week, Gaithersburg, MD based biopharmaceutical company, Emergent BioSolutions Inc. announced the signing of a nearly $1 billion contract with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...

On Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016, a woman dropped off a deceased bat at Spokane Regional Health District, 1101 W. College Ave., without speaking to officials. The health district is asking this woman to contact...

San Diego County health officials say a rabid bat was found at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park and are interested to know if anyone who was in the park directly handled the rabid bat. The County of San...