Region of Waterloo Public Health says two bats found in Wellesley Township recently tested positive for rabies. Officials say ...

A raccoon is biting people in New Jersey and officials in New York declared an imminent threat to public health ...

The Toronto Health Authority is searching for an unidentified person who may have been exposed to rabies when they handled a ...

The incubation period between being infected and showing symptoms is typically between three and 12 weeks, but can vary from a few days to many months. How many UK cases have there been? There have ...

Despite the case of rabies in the bat, TPH says the overall risk of exposure to the virus in Toronto is “very low, unless direct contact was made with an infected animal’s saliva.” ...

Between 1924 and 2009, public health said 24 people in six provinces died of rabies. The three most recent human cases in Canada were bat-related and occurred in Quebec in 2000, British Columbia ...

The Renfrew County and District Health Unit (RCDHU) has confirmed that a bat collected in Pembroke has tested positive for ...

The wildlife center helped authorities safely remove 41 bats from an apartment complex, which led to the detection of the ...

You can get rabies from a cat scratch, but this is extremely rare. Most rabies transmissions happen when someone is bitten by an infected animal. Rabies is a preventable but fatal nervous system ...

Even though rabies would pop up every so often, it wasn’t a big deal, Kovic said. People knew how to recognize it and avoid infected animals. It was rare for a person to get infected, he says.