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Frederick County Dog Found To Have Rabies
FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — Frederick County health officials say a dog has been found to have rabies — the first such case in a county dog in 13 years. Authorities said a stray pit bull-Chihuahua mix was...
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Md. Man Kills Fox Following Attack On Wife
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — A Hagerstown man says he beat a fox to a death after it bit his wife and attacked the couple’s dog. Terry Pike says he used a shotgun on Monday afternoon to beat the fox, which...
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Rat Bites Baltimore City Police Officer
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A Baltimore City police officer is on medical leave after a tiny intruder gave him some big problems. This rat snuck into the officer’s cruiser and crawled up his back. Thinking his...
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Apartment Complexes In Harford Co. Infested With Bats
BALTIMORE (WJZ)– Imagine waking up to some unusual sounds, and spotting a bat flying around in your home. That’s what’s happened to a number of people living in two apartment complexes in Harford...
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Spike In Number Of Rabid Bats Causing Alarm In Baltimore
BALTIMORE (WJZ)– An increase in rabid bats is causing alarm in Baltimore City. You may have been bitten and not even know it. Weijia Jiang has more on the spike in cases. Bats are invading Baltimore....
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Anne Arundel County Health Officials Baiting Raccoons With Rabies Vaccine
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, Md. (WJZ)– Rabid raccoons can be a big problem in Anne Arundel County. Monique Griego has more on how health department leaders are doing whatever they can to curb the disease. “We...
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Anne Arundel County Vaccinates Against Rabies By Helicopter
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Anne Arundel County health officials are taking to the air to vaccinate raccoons for rabies. Health officials say they are distributing about 70,000 bait packs containing the...
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Cat That Bit 2 People Tests Positive For Rabies
NORTH EAST, Md. (AP) — A cat that bit two people near Rising Sun High School in Cecil County has tested positive for rabies. The Cecil County Health Department says the two people were in a parking lot...
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Rabies Cases Up In Cecil County
ELKTON, Md. (AP) — Health officials say Cecil County has seen as many rabies cases so far this year as in all of last year. Angela Scramlin, spokeswoman for the office of Environmental Health Services,...
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Rabid Cat Scratches 5 In Port Deposit
ELKTON, Md. (AP) — Cecil County health officials say rabies has been found in a sickly stray cat that scratched five people in downtown Port Deposit. The five people were scratched Friday. The cat was...
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Md. Woman Exposed To Rabies Following Deer’s Kick
LAVALE, Md. (AP) — It’s strange enough to be kicked in the face by a deer, let alone one with rabies. But that’s what happened to one western Maryland woman this month. Theresa Stevens, of LaVale,...
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Fans Possibly Exposed To Rabies After A Bat Swoops In During Last Friday’s...
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — An unusual health warning goes out to Ravens fans. Some people in the stands at last Friday’s game against the Detroit Lions may have been exposed to rabies. Denise Koch has more....
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Md. Resident Dies Of Rabies For The First Time Since 1976
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Rare death. A human dies from rabies here in Maryland for the first time since 1976. Now health officials are investigating how that person contracted the virus. Meghan McCorkell has...
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Marylander Who Died Of Rabies Contracted It From Kidney Transplant Surgery
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Maryland health officials release new information about a rare case. A man dies of rabies he received through an organ transplant. Mike Hellgren tells us about more people who could...
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Hundreds Checked For Risk In Rabies Case
By DAVID DISHNEAU Associated Press Public health agencies in five states are assessing the rabies risk for hundreds of people who may have had close contact with an infected organ donor and four...
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N.C. Airman At Center Of Rabies Case Was Outdoorsman
TRENTON, N.C. (AP) — When William Edward Small told his father that he’d signed an organ donor card, it came as no surprise. “Little Ed” had been that way his whole life, his dad said. “If he had it,...
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23 Urged To Get Rabies Shot After Transplant Death
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says at least 23 people have been urged to get rabies shots following the disclosure that four patients received organs from an infected...
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Transplant Guidelines Too Late For Rabies Victim
(AP) Experts say a Maryland man who died last month of rabies might have been spared under transplant recommendations that hadn’t yet been published when he got a kidney from an infected donor in 2011....
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CDC: Rabies No Longer Threat To 3 Organ Recipients
(AP) Federal public health officials say three people who received organs from a rabies-infected donor in 2011 are no longer in danger of coming down with the deadly disease. The Centers for Disease...
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CDC Probes Mystery Of Rabies Transplant Survivors
ATLANTA (AP) — The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is trying to understand why three of the four people who got organs from a rabies-infected donor in 2011 didn’t develop the...
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