THE Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) has warned about counterfeit anti-rabies vaccines being sold in the Davao Region, following a rise in rabies cases. Dr. Nikko Jay Lagudas, from SPMC’s ...

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) will distribute oral rabies vaccine (ORV) by aircraft across Catoosa County and surrounding northwest Georgia areas from April 7-15. This ...

according to the CDC. This is largely due to rabies prevention efforts in the U.S., such as the vaccination of pets.

Because rabies vaccines are a legal requirement for dogs and cats in the U.S., cases in dogs are rare in the states. Worldwide, however, dogs are responsible for more than 95% of the estimated ...

Alabama state law requires that dogs, cats and ferrets 12 weeks of age and older be current with rabies vaccination. Although there are animal rabies vaccines that last for one year or three years ...

A Michigan resident has died of rabies after receiving an organ transplant. The patient, who received the transplant at an Ohio hospital in December 2024, died of the fatal virus in January 2025 ...

Care following rabies exposure includes four to five doses of the rabies vaccine, which is almost 100% effective at preventing the disease from developing when administered quickly. Every year ...

After that, you need to get a series of shots to prevent the virus from causing rabies. You will also be given an antibody treatment directly to the wound if you have never been vaccinated before.

Vaccines are responsible for the control of many infectious diseases that were once common in the United States, including polio, measles, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), rubella (German ...