When a bat appears in a bedroom or living room, the real danger is often the bite you never felt. Rabies remains almost ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ST. CLAIR COUNTY, MI – A person was bitten by a rabid bat in southeast Michigan, health officials say. The St. Clair County Health Department was notified by the Michigan Department of Health and ...

Bats are a familiar sight in Arizona’s night skies, fluttering above saguaro silhouettes, gobbling up mosquitoes and pollinating desert plants. Bats are mostly helpful, rarely harmful and play a vital ...

The county is looking for people who may have come into contact with a bat in North County last week. The bat, which was found July 18 on a sidewalk in Oceanside’s North Valley neighborhood, later ...

County public health officials asked anyone who may have come into contact with a rabid bat at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park earlier this week to contact them. The wild bat was found at 10:45 a.m.