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NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Florida Department of Health reported 79 total animal rabies cases in 2021, down from 80 in 2020 and 129 in 2019. Levy County reported the most cases with eight and like in previous...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 In the yards behind the slaughterhouses—also called abattoirs—of Ethiopia, an ecological shift is unfolding that has echoes of similar crises all over the world. Species with...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 In a follow-up on a rabies case in an arctic fox in the community of Nain, The Provincial Government of Newfoundland and Labrador reports the confirmation of three positive rabies...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 South Carolina health officials reported yesterday that a horse found near Thrush Road and Martin Towne Road in Ninety Six, S.C., has tested positive for rabies. Four people were...

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews South Africa health officials reported the first human rabies case of 2022. Rabies was confirmed in a four-year-old child from the Eastern Cape Province. The child was...

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Yesterday, January 30 was World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day is a day to promote awareness of and secure resources for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs)–a diverse...

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Newfoundland and Labrador government has confirmed that an Arctic fox killed in the community of Nain has tested positive for rabies. The Canadian Food Inspection...

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Health officials in Iloilo province in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines reported a three fold increase in human rabies deaths in 2021 compared to 2020, according...

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In 2021, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported a total of five human rabies cases/deaths, including three cases from September to November...