New Study Offers Hope For Future Rabies Cure
When you were growing up, your parents may have told you to stay away from stray or wild animals. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - October 14, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Mark Kortepeter, Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation standard Source Type: news

Rabies Vaccines Airdropped From Planes Throughout The Southeastern States In October
The US Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is now airdropping millions of doses of oral rabies vaccines (ORV) throughout several Southeastern states, as wild raccoons and other…#orv #southeastern #usda #northcarolina #ncdhhs #buncombe #haywood #transylvania #ericaberl #epochtimes (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - October 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Africa: World Rabies Day 2023 Campaign - 'All for 1 One Health for All'
[Africa CDC] What is Rabies? (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 2, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Africa Health and Medicine Source Type: news

Nigeria: 4.6 Billion People At Risk of Rabies Infection - WMA
[Vanguard] ... Advocate incorporation of disease education in school curricula (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - September 29, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Nigeria West Africa Source Type: news

Is the First Cure for Advanced Rabies Near?
THURSDAY, Sept. 28, 2023 -- Rabies virus is incurable and almost always fatal once it has invaded the central nervous system, with the victim doomed to suffer a horrible death. But researchers now think they ’ve found an effective and simple... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - September 28, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news

Tanzania: Ministry to Raise Awareness on Rabies Disease
[Daily News] THE Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries plans to conduct countrywide awareness education about rabies disease ahead of the 17th World Rabies Day to be marked on September 28. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - September 20, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: East Africa Health and Medicine Tanzania Source Type: news

Rhode Island rolls out RABIES vaccines to hundreds of residents amid fears they've been exposed to '100% deadly' disease - as state sees 'unprecedented' bat activity
Hundreds of Rhode Island residents have received rabies vaccines after they were possibly exposed to the fatal disease during an 'unprecedented bat season' in the state. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Two more rabid bats found in Utah: Animals test positive for rabies, a disease '100 percent' fatal in humans
Another two bats were diagnosed with the disease in the Salt Lake City area last week, with one found in a skatepark and the second lying on a residential street. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Two more rabid bats found in Utah. Animals test positive for rabies, a disease '100 percent' fatal in humans
Another two bats were diagnosed with the disease in the Salt Lake City area last week, with one found in a skatepark and the second lying on a residential street. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Vaccine Skepticism Spreads to Pets; Generics for ADHD Approved; Malaria in Maryland
(MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Some dog owners questioned pet vaccines like rabies, survey data showed. (Vaccine) The FDA approved multiple generics of lisdexamfetamine dimesylate to treat attention... (Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics)
Source: MedPage Today Pediatrics - August 29, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news

Antivaxx spreads to pet owners: HALF of dog owners now hesitant about vaccinating their dogs (including against rabies) and a third think it could give their pooches AUTISM
Boston University researchers found almost half felt shots for diseases like rabies should no longer be mandated. Nearly 40 percent raised concerns over autism. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Scientists Are Just Beginning to Understand COVID-19 ’ s Effect On the Brain
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors started to notice something striking. For what was originally described as a respiratory virus, SARS-CoV-2 seemed to have a strong effect on the brain, causing everything from loss of taste and smell and brain fog to, in serious cases, stroke. NYU Langone Health, a New York city research hospital, started collating those anecdotes in hopes of better understanding how the virus affects the brain and nervous system. Years later, the project has morphed from focusing solely on acute symptoms to also tracking the long-term neurologic issues that some people with Long COVID experience, sa...
Source: TIME: Health - July 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

Bobcat that attacked a camper in Connecticut tests positive for rabies
A bobcat that attacked a camper in a hammock at a Connecticut state park has tested positive for rabies (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - July 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news

Rabies in an imported dog, Ontario, 2021 - Rebellato S, Choi M, Gitelman J, Ratiu F, Magnusson K, Armstrong B, Fehlner-Gardiner C, McClinchey H, Tataryn J, Anderson ME, Di Salvo P, Gardner C.
In July 2021, a dog was imported into Canada from Iran and subsequently developed clinical signs of rabies within 11 days of arrival. Following laboratory confirmation of the diagnosis of rabies, local, provincial and federal inter-agency collaboration was... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - June 24, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Global Community Celebrates Medical Innovations and Milestones Since Defining Leprosy Discovery 150 Years Ago
Yohei Sasakawa, WHO’s Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination, speaks at the two-day Bergen International Conference on Hansen’s Disease. The conference coincided with the 150th anniversary of the discovery of Mycobacterium leprae by Norwegian doctor Gerhard Armauer Hansen. Credit: Thor Brødreskift/Sasakawa Leprosy (Hansen’s Disease) Initiative By Joyce ChimbiNAIROBI, Jun 22 2023 (IPS) The 1873 discovery of Mycobacterium leprae, the causative agent of leprosy by Norwegian doctor Gerhard Armauer Hansen, remains one of the greatest paradigm shifts in medical history, a true revolution. “Before the great discover...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - June 22, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Joyce Chimbi Tags: Conferences Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Global Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Sasakawa Leprosy (Hansen’s Disease) Initiative Source Type: news