Health and wildlife officials in Nebraska are scrambling to stave off an outbreak of rabies after a kitten was found to be infected with an unexpected strain of the killer virus, warning that humans ...

A stray kitten is partly responsible for a multi-agency effort to extinguish a strain of rabies, commonly found in raccoons, that had never been seen west of the Appalachian Mountains. It all started ...

Ten people have been treated in Nebraska after a dead feral kitten was found to have tested positive for a raccoon rabies strain that was previously undetected in the state. The strain of rabies ...

The now-euthanized dog was the first to test positive for rabies in Cook County since before 1964 and the first in Illinois since 1994, according to public health officials.

THEY DID NOT ARREST HIM. DOUGLAS COUNTY HEALTH TELLS US MORE THAN 300 RACCOONS HAVE BEEN TRAPPED, VACCINATED AND RELEASED. THE DEPARTMENT IS WORKING WITH FEDERAL OFFICIALS TO STOP THE SPREAD OF A FORM ...

The raccoon rabies strain found in an Omaha kitten was never before seen in this part of the country. That forced federal officials to come in and vaccinate raccoons to make sure it didn't spread. Now ...

Human rabies usually is associated with a known exposure to a rabid animal, but sometimes the patient has had no known animal contact. These cryptogenic cases of rabies are associated most often with ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has begun scattering millions of packets of oral rabies vaccine from helicopters and planes over 13 states from Maine to Alabama. The major aim is to keep raccoons ...

The earliest rabies vaccine was given to dogs in 1885, and by the 1940s, routine rabies vaccination of owned dogs against the fatal virus gradually led to elimination of the canine rabies strain in ...

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the virulence characteristics of two fixed strains (CTN and aG) and a street strain (HN10) of rabies viruses isolated in China. METHODS: ICR mice of different age groups were ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The U.S. Department of ...