Officials with the Provincial Health Office are reporting the deaths of three children in Negros Occidental in the Central Visayas region of the Philippines. Records show that the victims, ages 9, 10,...

French chemist Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) has to be ranked up there as one of the greatest contributors to the areas of microbiology and infectious diseases. A painter and a teacher, Pasteur studied chemistry...

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The S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control has referred 11 people to their private health care providers for post-exposure treatment after being potentially exposed to a rabid cat in Richland...

The Peru Ministry of Health is looking at a mass rabies vaccination campaign for the 20,000 people who live in the Napo District, Maynas Province, Loreto region of the country after reporting the death...

For the third time in 2015, Bolivian health officials are reporting a human rabies fatality, this time in a 8-year-old girl from  the rural municipality of Portachuelo in the eastern Santa Cruz region. The...

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Four people have been referred to their health care providers for consultation after being exposed to rabies in Abbeville by a sheep that tested positive for the disease, the Department of Health and Environmental...

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The New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH) announced Tuesday that a rabid fox from Lincoln County that bit a woman on April 20 had a strain of rabies that has never before been identified. The genetic...

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Health officials in South Carolina are reporting two rabies exposures recently in Marion and Florence Counties. One person has been referred to their health care provider for consultation after being...

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The New York State Department of Health (DOH) is reminding New Yorkers to take the necessary precautions to protect themselves against rabies exposure from stray and wild animals, like bats which, during...

A woman from Ammapettai, Tamil Nadu died of rabies yesterday, about two weeks after being bitten by a puppy. The Press Trust of India reports the 45-year-old victim initially neglected the bite wound...