Rabies, the almost universally fatal infection if not appropriately treated in a timely fashion, was responsible for 226 deaths in the Philippines in 2015, according to the Department of Health. This...

Animal bites, particularly dog bites, are by far the greatest threat of human rabies on the planet. However, other animal bites can be equally as dangerous although less frequently encountered. It’s...

A new framework to eliminate human rabies and save tens of thousands of lives each year has been launched today by the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), the...

According to the Control of Communicable Diseases Manual, all mammals are susceptible to rabies. Raccoons, skunks, foxes, bats, dogs, coyotes and cats are the likely suspects. Other animals like otters...

Camel bites have been implicated in the deaths of two young girls in Darfur’s East Jebel Marra, according to a Radio Dabanga report. It is reported that the 12 and 17-year-old girls were bitten...

A new campaign is calling for an end to human deaths from dog-transmitted rabies by 2030. The End Rabies Now campaign urges the international community to step up efforts to eliminate human deaths due...

For more than five decades, Taiwan was rabies-free–that was until 2013 when the lethal virus reappeared in a Formosan ferret-badger. Now the Taiwanese news source, Focus Taiwan reports  a 79-year-old...

The bad news is the Philippines Department of Agriculture (DOA) says that rabies is responsible for the deaths of 200 to 300 Filipinos per year, making it one of the leading causes of preventable deaths...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), human rabies cases in the United States, thanks to modern day prophylaxis is almost non-existent with only one or two per year. On Friday,...

A human death from rabies is a tragic but rare thing in the United States and most developed nations. It’s just as tragic but sadly common in parts of the world where some 3 billion people are at risk...