If you ever lie awake at night wondering just how likely you are to die from an asteroid impact within your lifetime, a new paper has you covered. A team led by physicist Carrie Nugent of the Olin College of Engineering in the US has calculated not just how likely it is that an asteroid will hit Earth during an …
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Clackamas County health officials say a bat found in a Molalla home tested positive for rabies. The bat was captured after it came into contact with a resident in the home. The animal was euthanized, and the Oregon State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory confirmed the bat tested positive for rabies on Friday. The county said the Molalla resident has been …
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MOLALLA, Ore. (KATU) — Health officials are warning the public after a bat tested positive for rabies in Clackamas County. A resident in Molalla had to receive treatment after coming into contact with a big brown bat in their home, a Clackamas County official said. The bat was later captured and tested at the Oregon State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory. …
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MOLALLA, Ore. (KATU) — Health officials are warning the public after a bat tested positive for rabies in Clackamas County. A resident in Molalla had to receive treatment after coming into contact with a big brown bat in their home, a Clackamas County official said. The bat was later captured and tested at the Oregon State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory. …
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WYOMISSING, Pa. – The Animal Rescue League of Berks County (ARL) is issuing a warning to residents of the Wyomissing area after an injured cat tested positive for rabies. The ARL received results for a positive rabies case after an injured brown tabby and white kitten were located by a resident near Hill Avenue in Wyomissing Borough on Saturday, July …
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A Townsend’s big eared bat clings onto a rock wall. Colorado is home to 19 native bat species.National Park Service/Courtesy photo Pitkin County has confirmed a bat that bit a person near the Weller Lake parking lot up Independence Pass has tested positive for rabies — the fourth confirmed county case in the last eight years and the first positive …
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Person County officials confirmed the sixth positive rabies exposure case for the year. On Tuesday, officials with the Person County Animal Services and Person County Health Department said a bat on Rolling Hills Road resulted in two confirmed rabies exposures. People are urged to take extra precautions when approaching wild animals or animals they are unfamiliar with. Officials also said …
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STONINGTON, CT — A racoon found on Wamphassuc Road in Stonington tested positive for rabies on Friday, according to a statement from the Ledge Light Health District. It’s the third animal to test positive for rabies in the area this month. Previously, a cat tested positive for rabies in North Stonington, and a bat tested positive for rabies in East …
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A dead raccoon found in Piscataway has tested positive for rabies after it made contact with a resident’s dog, local officials said. The resident and their pet dog were exposed to the rabid raccoon in the area of Greenwood Drive and Cedarwood Drive on Tuesday, the Middlesex County Office of Health Services said in a news release. The raccoon tested …
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The daughter of a British woman who died of rabies after she was scratched by a puppy on holiday has spoken of her mother’s ‘horrendous’ death. Yvonne Ford, 59, from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, was scratched on the leg by a small stray puppy lying under her sunbed while on holiday in Morocco with her husband in February – but thought nothing …
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