LAKE COUNTY, Ill. -- A man in northeastern Illinois died from rabies about a month after apparently being infected by a bat he found in his room, marking the first human case of the virus in the state ...

Department officials collected the bat for testing Feb. 4 and notified Strafford Health Officer Stephen Marx a couple of days later.

RHINELANDER, Wis. (WSAW) - The Oneida County Health Department is reminding everyone that rabies is deadly, but can be prevented. In the U.S., bats are the main cause of human rabies deaths. While ...

New San Mateo County data from 2025 shows a significant jump in the number of bats that tested positive for rabies after two ...

Carson City Health and Human Services is reporting that there have been two bats that have tested positive for rabies in Douglas County within the last two weeks. There was both animal and human ...

Editor’s note: Dr. Lee Pickett has retired, but Creators continues to distribute columns from her archive. This one is from 2022. Q: Our cat Brewster tangled with a bat in our house. I managed to get ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shasta County Health and Human Services Agency cautioned people to avoid touching or disturbing bats after two of the animals ...

An Australian man has died from an "extremely rare" rabies-like infection transmitted by a bat bite, health officials said Thursday. The man in his 50s was bitten by a bat carrying Australian bat ...

Q: Our cat Brewster tangled with a bat in our house. I managed to get the bat away from him and move it outside. Brewster's rabies vaccination is current, and I don't see any bites on him. Do I need ...

A man in his 50s has died from lyssavirus in New South Wales after being bitten by a bat several months ago. This is Australia’s fourth human case of bat lyssavirus and the first confirmed case in NSW ...