NewsDesk @bactiman63 Health officials in Northern Mindanao (DOH-10) have reported a significant increase in human rabies deaths in 2021. According to authorities, 18 rabies deaths were reported last year...

Greater rates of Colorado’s children are going to the pediatric emergency department as a result of dog bites during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recently published commentary article in...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews After reporting 24 human rabies deaths in 2019, the third rabies case has been reported at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre in Karachi in January to date, according...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Health officials in Sindh province have reported the 11th human rabies fatality in Karachi this year, primarily in children. The latest case is a 12-year old boy...

Rabies The lethal diseases remains a major public health issue in the Philippines as health officials reported a total of 1,176 human rabies cases from Jan. 1, 2014 to June 30, 2018, averaging about...

Officials at Yangon General Hospital in Myanmar reported at least 18 human deaths due t rabies during the first eight months of the year, according to a Myanmar Times report today. This total is only...

Last week I reported on a Wisconsin man who contracted a very serious infection with the bacterium, Capnocytophaga canimorsus and quickly went into septic shock. It is suspected he contracted the bacterium...

Yemen is experiencing more than it’s share of problems in recent years and infectious diseases are among them, including rabies. The Yemeni Ministry of Health (MOH) reported that 12,000 people were...

A recently published case reported last week in the journal BMJ Case Reports, describes the rare, yet very serious infection that can be contracted by “man’s best friend”. The case...

The risk of rabies in the northern Vietnam Thái Nguyên Province is ever present as dog bites are fairly common. Since the beginning of the year, provincial health authorities have reported some 2,500...