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Chicago dog tests positive for rabies for 1st time in decades, IDPH says
ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team Tuesday, December 23, 2025 12:55PMCHICAGO (WLS) -- For the first time in decades, a dog in Chicago tests positive for rabies.The Illinois Department of Public Health says this is the first rabid dog in Cook…
Skunk scratch in Idaho leads to two rabies deaths including organ recipient in Michigan
A rabid skunk scratched an Idaho resident, setting an exceedingly rare, deadly chain reaction that claimed two lives — the original bite victim and his organ transplant recipient, federal officials said.It’s believed to be the fourth…
Man dies after saving kitten from skunk – and passes rabies to kidney recipient
A Michigan man has died of rabies after receiving a kidney from another man who died of the disease when he was scratched by a skunk while defending a kitten, in what are officials are describing as an “exceptionally rare…
Planes, helicopters dropping bait packets with rabies vaccine for raccoons across Alabama
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is distributing bait packets containing an oral rabies vaccine across 14 central and north Alabama counites to try to reduce rabies in raccoons and the related public health risks.The Alabama Department…
Person County confirms eighth rabies case this year
Person County leaders confirmed the county’s eighth
confirmed rabies case this year.
Person County Animal Services and the Person County Health Department
are urging the…
Hundreds may have been exposed to rabies after bat colony found inside Grand Teton lodge
Hundreds of people may have been exposed to rabies after a suspected bat colony was discovered inside a lodge in Grand Teton National Park in recent months, national park and state health officials warned.The bat colony was found over…
Hundreds may have been exposed to rabies at bat-infested cabins in Grand Teton National
Health officials are working to alert hundreds of people in dozens of states and several countries who may have been exposed to rabies in bat-infested cabins in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park over the past few months.As of…
Dog meat restaurant owner dies from rabies after cooking animal with disease
The owner of a restaurant in Vietnam that specializes in the meat of dogs and cats died after contracting rabies from one of the animals he slaughtered. Nguyen Van B., 33, from the southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau province, began exhibiting…
California teacher dies from rabies month after being bitten by bat in her classroom
A Central California woman died from rabies after she was bitten by a bat, officials said Tuesday, in the first fatality from the saliva-passed disease in her county in more than 30 years.Leah Seneng, 60, passed away on Nov. 22 after she…