Rabies is a deadly virus that affects the nervous system. Rabies primarily affects animals, but it also affects human beings.

Local animal control wants to remind residents to get their pets vaccinated against rabies after several reports of rabid animal encounters.

Algae effects are largely non-communicable, but animals, including people, can be exposed to rabies by being bitten or scratched by a rabid animal or by its saliva or brain tissue contacting broken ...

The Yates County Public Health office would like to remind the Greater Rochester area about some basic precautions and ...

Yates County Public Health is reminding residents to take precautions against rabies after two stray cats recently tested positive for the virus — one in the Penn Yan area and another in Dundee.

You should get a rabies shot immediately after any potential exposure, such as a bite, scratch, or even a lick on broken skin ...

Among questions officials have refused to answer are where at the lake the animal was found and why it was not preserved and tested as required by state regulations. Additional questions surfaced ...

Staff confirmed the cat later died and was brought to animal control services. They later tested the cat and it came back ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A bat recently tested positive for rabies in the Louisville area. A deceased bat was found outside a home ...

The Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) is alerting the public that a stray cat found in the area of Newell Court in ...

PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Department of Health is alerting the public throgh a press release that a stray cat found in the area of Newell Court in Coventry tested ...