Federal advisory panel: Just 4 rabies shots needed

People exposed to rabies need only four vaccinations, not the five currently recommended, a vaccine advisory committee said Wednesday. In the past, rabies shots were dreaded almost as much as the disease itself. Until the 1970s, an encounter with a rabid animal led to at least 14 shots in the abdomen. But vaccines have improved, and five shots in the arm or thigh have been the U.S. standard for more than 20 years.

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This week on ‘CSI,’ the job bites back

Catherine decided to do Doc Robbins a favor and look in on Darla Kelly, the mother of a victim whose cause of death was undetermined. But Darla attacked her, choking her and biting her on the wrist. Catherine managed to break free and the woman collapsed on the floor and died.

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Ind. Girl Dies of Rabies After Bat Bite

A 10-year-old girl who was diagnosed with Indiana's first confirmed case of rabies in nearly half a century died Thursday, a hospital spokeswoman said.

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The Central Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF) in India has launched a plan to sterilize over 8 million dogs over the next ten years. The mission: to eradicate rabies from India as quickly as possible.

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Two South Carolina men are undergoing rabies treatment after they were attacked by bobcats.

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Australian vets have been warned to be vigilant about the threat of rabies in remote northern Australia, as an outbreak continues to concern experts in eastern Indonesia.

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A 9-year-old girl was attacked Friday by a rabid coyote. The girl was waiting for her school bus when the animal attacked, causing her severe toe damage and leg injuries. A nearby adult was able to kill the coyote with a .22 pistol.

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A horse in the Hamilton Lane/North Yarnallton Pike area of Lexington, Ky., has tested positive for rabies, according to a statement from the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department.

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The woman had been unwell for months after having been exposed at an animal sanctuary in South Africa.

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Rabies has been confirmed in the tourist island of Bali in Indonesia and tourists have been warned to avoid all contact with dogs, cats, monkeys and other animals. The disease is often fatal, so tourists are urged to seek advice on vaccinations before travelling to Bali.

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Four years ago, Jeanna Giese, now 19, became the first person to survive rabies without a preventive vaccine. Now, the medical procedure developed for treating Giese may have saved the lives of two children in South America.

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Scientists in the remote Bale mountains of southern Ethiopia are in a race against time to save the world's rarest wolf. Rabies passed from domestic dogs is threatening to kill up to two-thirds of all Ethiopian wolves.

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A woman jogger ran for a mile with a rabid fox clamped to her arm before locking the animal in the trunk of her car and racing to hospital for treatment, police said Thursday.

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If she had to give the rabid fox that bit her a nickname, Michelle Felicetta would call it "Thrasher."

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An Arizona jogger had an unwelcome companion on a recent run - a fox, hanging on to her arm by its teeth. The rabid animal had attacked her foot and then as she grabbed its neck, it bit her arm and would not let go.

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Instead of giving her up for dead, the doctors decided to "shut the brain down and wait for the cavalry to come" by inducing a coma to give her own immune system time to build up antibodies against the virus, says Rodney Willoughby, an infectious disease specialist who treated Gi …

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About 90 elementary school students in Montana have started a series of rabies shots after a parent let them touch a dead bat that was later confirmed to be diseased.

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"While there is little likelihood any visitor to the Fair was exposed to rabies from this horse, public health officials are making this notification as a precaution."

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Experts suspect an outbreak of rabies spread by vampire bats has killed at least 38 people in Venezuela

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At least 38 Warao Indians have died in remote villages in Venezuela, and medical experts suspect an outbreak of rabies spread by bites from vampire bats.

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In Moscow region 50-year old Vladimir Turskov died from the bite of a rabid raccoon. The man was rushed to the hospital, but all vital organs failed to work and the man died.

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One of three people bitten in the UK by a puppy which had rabies has described how the animal's behaviour changed dramatically when it got infected.

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Three quarantine workers have been treated for exposure to rabies after being bitten by an infected puppy, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said last night.

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Officials said the fox ran up and bit a 3-year-old girl and three other children Tuesday night in Lake County. Family members of the bitten children chased the fox down and pummeled it to death with their fists.... See more irresistible news  

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Authorities in Indian Kashmir have begun poisoning stray dogs in an anti-rabies programme that aims to kill 100,000 dogs in the region s main city.

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Officials at the Toronto Humane Society say a dog bought at a highway flea market at Dr Flea's has tested positive for rabies.

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On Nov. 5, to the cries of "remember, remember the fifth of November," Ron Paul supporters rallied to make fundraising history by raising $4.3 million in 24 hours.

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Rabies is a disease usually found in wild animals, but it can be transmitted to domestic mammals and humans. In the United States, human rabies is extremely rare, primarily due to the success of domestic pet immunization and the availability of vaccine to treat bite victims.

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