The COVID-19 pandemic led to heightened public interest in learning about viruses and how they can cause diseases. There has ...

Here’s what to do if you cross paths with an animal you think may have rabies in South Carolina and how to tell if it is ...

Rabies is a viral disease that mainly infects mammals (warm-blooded animals who nurse their young) and is spread through the ...

Influenza virus is an infectious agent belonging to the virus family Orthomyxoviridae that causes a respiratory tract infection (influenza or 'flu') in vertebrates. There are three main species ...

Cook County's ARC released a Halloween-themed map to educate on rabies prevention, noting seven rabid bats found this year.

A new alert has been issued in Anne Arundel County after a raccoon tested positive for rabies. The county's Department of ...

A stray kitten in Auburn has tested positive for rabies, possibly exposing several veterinary workers and others to the virus, the Alabama Department of Public Health said Thursday. The kitten was ...

“You tend to have one or the other virus predominant at any given time,” said Anice Lowen, a professor of microbiology and immunology at the Emory University School of Medicine. Here’s what ...

Rwanda is facing its first ever Marburg virus outbreak. Beginning in late September, 62 cases and 15 deaths had been reported by 17 October, mostly among healthcare workers in Kigali, the capital ...

Rabies is transmitted when an infected mammal's contaminated saliva gets into a new mammalian host through a bite, lick or scratch. The virus travels through the victim's peripheral nervous ...

The nearest other cases of the Eastern raccoon rabies virus variant (RRVV) were on the East Coast, almost 850 miles away, investigators explained. "A coordinated multiagency response was initiated ...

The nearest other cases of the Eastern raccoon rabies virus variant (RRVV) were on the East Coast, almost 850 miles away, investigators explained. "A coordinated multiagency response was initiated ...