Hantavirus recently made news headlines as the cause of death for Betsy Arakawa, the wife of actor Gene Hackman, but little ...

Officials in 2024 started seeing more bats in homes compared with previous years but weren't sure why.

A bat collected from a home in St. Louis County has tested positive for rabies. The bat was collected from a home in Webster ...

Bladen County Health Department was notified of a second raccoon in the past week that tested positive for rabies.

Last year, African giant pouched rats like Carolina prevented nearly 400,000 new cases of a deadly disease. It's possible because of their extreme sense of smell. Carolina, an African giant ...

Hailey Whitters recently shared a story on social media that is straight out of a nightmare and will surely have folks checking their toilets before use moving forward. The 35-year-old country music ...

A Michigan resident has died after contracting rabies through a recent organ transplant. We don’t know which organ was ...

A Michigan resident died earlier this year after contracting rabies from an organ transplant, health officials said. The patient had the organ transplanted at a hospital in Ohio in December and ...

A kidney transplant patient has died in Ohio after receiving an organ infected with rabies. The recipient received care in Lucas County, Ohio, in December 2024, the Toledo-Lucas County Health ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. Rats and other rodents roaming around our homes and gardens is less than ideal but how can we keep them away? Gardening experts are warning ...

Rabies counts in Arizona are far outpacing the rate of positive tests for the same period last year, leaving counties warning residents about the deadly virus. Rabies is an infectious disease that ...