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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Carson City Health and Human Services is reporting that there have been two bats that have tested positive for rabies in Douglas County within the last two weeks. There was both animal and human ...
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 ...
When a bat appears in a bedroom or living room, the real danger is often the bite you never felt. Rabies remains almost uniformly fatal once symptoms start, which is why many health officials now tell ...
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 ...
A man in his 50s has died from lyssavirus in New South Wales after being bitten by a bat several months ago. This is Australia’s fourth human case of bat lyssavirus and the first confirmed case in NSW ...
As temperatures soared and outdoor activity peaked, July 2025 saw a range of serious bat and human rabies incidents. CO, UNITED STATES, September 8, 2025 ...