By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews COVID-19 Of the total accumulated positive cases of COVID-19 in Metropolitan Lima (480,438), the jurisdiction of South Lima represents 46.6% (223,972) so far in the...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 In a follow-up on human rabies cases in South Africa, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) reports the death of a 10-year-old child in the township of Umbumbulu...

The Prince George’s County Health Department issued a rabies alert after concerns that animals or people may have been exposed to a rabid raccoon in Fairmount Heights. According to health officials,...

By News Desk  @bactiman63 China reported it’s fourth rabies case caused by organ transplantation on January 2019 since 2015 and details of the case are described in Biosafety and Health in December. The...

By News Desk  @bactiman63 A little over a week ago in North Carolina, Alamance County Animal Control was notified of a skunk that bit a dog on Fernway Drive. Alamance County Animal Control sent the skunk...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews According to a retrospective analysis, the Institut Pasteur has reported the death of a 60-year-old Limoges man had died from European bat Lyssavirus type 1 in August...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Malaysia Ministry of Health reported an additional human rabies case in Sarawak province, the ninth of the year. The case is a 53-year-old woman from Selangau...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 South Carolina health officials report that a rabid raccoon entered the Lexington Medical Center in West Columbia, South Carolina. It is reported that at least one person was...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Health officials in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) of northern Luzon in the Philippines have reported a decrease in incidence in 20 out of 21 monitored infectious...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 A live skunk was found and captured this morning at a maritime container yard at Pier 1 in Kahului, Maui. The skunk was spotted roaming around in the container yard early in...