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One Health Headlines: Friday, February 3, 2012

February 3, 2012 | Michael San Filippo | Leave a comment

We lead off this week’s One Health roundup with an incredible story out of California, where an 8-year-old girl became one of the few people ever to survive a rabies infection (you can read the CDC report here ).

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One Health Headlines: Friday, January 20, 2012

January 20, 2012 | Michael San Filippo | Leave a comment

This week’s One Health roundup has updates on human cases of H5N1 avian influenza in Southeast Asia, a look at research underway on an experimental drug that could help injured dogs (and possibly humans) walk again, video showing how studying a snake’s slither could lead to better search-and-rescue robots, and much more.

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One Health Headlines: Friday, January 6, 2012

January 6, 2012 | Michael San Filippo | Leave a comment

At the beginning of this week Massachusetts health officials announced the first human case of rabies reported in the state since 1935. It was later determined that the victim was infected by a little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus). This follows last month’s announcement out of South Carolina that a woman died after contracting rabies, that state’s first human case of rabies in half a century.

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Recent news about rabies shows why pets must be vaccinated

January 3, 2012 | Julie Ciaramella | Leave a comment

Going through some of today’s One Health news, I noticed that many of the stories were about rabies: Australian veterinarians have warned that there could be terrible consequences if an Indonesian epidemic of rabies reaches Australia. A man in Boston has fallen ill with a rare case of rabies. And, in better news, Indian researchers have taken an important step toward a cure for the disease.

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One Health Headlines: Friday, December 30, 2011

December 30, 2011 | Michael San Filippo | Leave a comment

A sad story out of South Carolina, where a woman believed to have been bitten by a bat died from rabies, the first human case in the state in more than 50 years. It’s an unfortunate reminder that, although rare, rabies remains a deadly zoonotic threat in the United States.

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