I just got a postcard in the mail from my veterinarian. They say it’s time for my dog to get her rabies vaccination. We’ve all heard of rabies, but I feel like it’s a bit of a mysterious virus ...

Rabid: A Cultural History Of The World's Most Diabolical Virus is non-fiction and horror. Written by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy, this well-researched horror that stays because it cannot be erased or ...

Rabies is one of the most deadly zoonotic diseases. It affects the central nervous system of humans and warm-blooded animals. The disease is transmitted from animal to man and from animal to animal ...

Because of the amount of contact we have with our pets, protecting them from rabies is critically important for us as well as for them. While most rabies cases occur in wildlife, particularly skunks ...

Katie Hampson receives funding from The Wellcome Trust. Chacha, a farmer and businessman from northern Tanzania, returned home from market one afternoon to find that his family’s newly adopted puppy ...

A black bear in coastal North Carolina tested positive for rabies this month, making it the first known case of the fatal disease in a bear in state history, wildlife officials said. The year-old bear ...

Last year a team of researchers from Peru and the U.S. made a discovery that challenged one of the most widely held assumptions about rabies—that the virus is nearly always fatal unless doctors ...