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Rabies death reported in Lipetsk Oblast, Russia

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A man who died from rabies last May has now been laboratory confirmed, according to the Rospotrebnadzor, or the Russian Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing. The...

Mississippi’s 1st rabies case in decades contracted it from a bat

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In a follow-up report on a feral cat that tested positive for rabies in Starkville, Mississippi, health officials reported Friday that the type of rabies confirmed came from a bat. Exposures to the rabid...

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Starkville feral cat is first rabies case in Mississippi since the 60s

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Mississippi health officials are reporting the first case of rabies in a land animal in the state in 54 years. The case was identified in a feral cat in Starkville described as a small, black and white...

Rabies vaccine to be dropped on Staten Island next week

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On Monday, August 17 through Wednesday, August 19, between the hours of 8 A.M. and 8 P.M., wildlife biologists with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Cornell University will distribute...

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Philippines Reportable Diseases update for 2015: Diphtheria doubles, measles way down

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In this post, I want to look at some of the most significant reportable infectious diseases in the Philippines to date in 2015 and compare to the same period in 2014. Cholera From Jan. 1 to Jun. 27 this...

Developing Nations and the US Have Different Priorities in a Unified Fight to Control the Growing Threat from Rabies

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Rabies has the highest case fatality rate of any infectious disease; without treatment or with treatment delayed, an individual, once infected, has a 99.9% chance of dying. Dogs, throughout human history,...

Rabies kills 12 in Bali, dogs being euthanize with strychnine darts

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More than 100 human rabies deaths were reported in the Indonesian tourist destination of Bali from December 2008 and February 2011 and part of the government efforts to get the outbreak under control...

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South Africa reports 5th human rabies case of the year

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An eight-year-old boy from the Ficksburg area in Free State province, South Africa has died from rabies after a dog bite, making him the fifth human rabies case in the country this year. According to...

Virginia Beach: Rabid otter attacks two tourists

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An otter, who tested positive for the lethal virus, rabies, attacked and bit two tourists in Virginia Beach, according to a Pilot Online report. City officials say the attacks happened near the 2200...

South Carolina: 4 receive rabies prophylaxis after dog exposure in Columbia

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Four people have been referred to their health care providers to undergo post-exposure treatment after separate exposures to a dog that tested positive for the disease in Lexington County, the Department...