Published time: 22 Dec, 2017 22:12 A four-month-old infant in Pennsylvania, Philadelphia had to undergo emergency surgery after being attacked and bitten on the face by a racoon inside a home. She required 65 stitches. “She was lying on the floor across the room with blood all over her face, screaming and crying,” Ashley Rodgers, […]
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World Rabies Day: Top 10 facts about the disease
1. Around 60,000 people a year, almost all in Asia or Africa, die from rabies contracted after being bitten by an animal. 2. The vast majority of those deaths result from dog bites. 3. In the USA, there are now only one or two cases of rabies in humans annually, most often transmitted by bites […]
