COLUMBIA — Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services has released its 2024 Communicable Disease Report. The report highlights trends in reportable illnesses and public health risks across ...

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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - As a frame of reference, each animal bite you’ll read about will be measured in pounds per square inch, or PSI. We’ll use the human bite as a baseline, which averages 162 PSI ...

Rabies is one of the deadliest viral diseases in the world. Once symptoms show, it is almost always fatal. According to The World Health Organization (WHO), “Rabies is a vaccine-preventable, zoonotic, ...

Residents of this town and neighboring areas now have easier access to anti-rabies vaccination after the Department of Health ...