A man in his 50s from northern New South Wales has died after contracting Australian bat lyssavirus, marking the first known human fatality from the virus in the Australian state. According to reports ...

“It is incredibly rare for the virus to transmit to humans, but once symptoms of lyssavirus start in people who are scratched or bitten by an infected bat, sadly there is no effective treatment,” ...

A man in his 50s has died from lyssavirus in New South Wales after being bitten by a bat several months ago. This is Australia’s fourth human case of bat lyssavirus and the first confirmed case in NSW ...

In an extremely rare case, a bat-borne virus that causes a similar illness to rabies claimed a 50-year-old man's life from Northern NSW; this is the fourth case since its discovery in the previous 30 ...

A man in his 50s has died from lyssavirus in New South Wales after being bitten by a bat several months ago. This is Australia’s fourth human case of bat lyssavirus and the first confirmed case in NSW ...

THE death of a boy who contracted lyssavirus on Long Island has caused the number of people seeking vaccinations to double. A Queensland Health spokeswoman said so far this year 273 people in ...

Rabies is caused by the rabies virus, lyssavirus, which says, 'If you get sick without vaccination, you will definitely die. There is no established cure and the prognosis is hopeless.' Kurzgesagt, a ...

Health authorities are desperately trying to identify four children who played with a bat suspected of carrying a fatal rabies-like disease. The children, aged between 3 and 10, were playing with the ...

Last week, Queensland Health alerted the public about the risk of Australian bat lyssavirus, after a bat found near a school just north of Brisbane was given to a wildlife carer group. The bat later ...

The presence of rabies antibodies in a patient should not necessarily result in a diagnosis of the disease if the patient has received immune globulin, according to researchers. Intravenous immune ...