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

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

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 ...

A rise in the number of rabies-carrying bats in Riverside County prompted health officials on Wednesday to remind residents to take extra precautions to avoid contact with the creatures to prevent any ...

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 ...

Pitkin County has confirmed a bat that bit a person near the Weller Lake parking lot up Independence Pass has tested positive for rabies — the fourth confirmed county case in the last eight years and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bat in St. Clair County that bit one person has tested positive for rabies, according to the health department. The Michigan ...

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 ...

Scottish scientists in the Amazon are helping to tackle a growing threat from vampire bats, which carry the deadly rabies virus. Researchers say more humans and livestock are being bitten by the bats ...