Unlike rabies, which causes roughly 59,000 human deaths annually, predominantly in Africa and Asia, human infection with bat ...

A man has died from an "extremely rare" rabies-like infection transmitted by a bat bite, Australian health officials said.

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The virus -- a close relative to rabies, which does not exist in Australia -- is transmitted when bat saliva enters the human ...

Health authorities believe the man who died from a type of rabies in the state’s north was bitten on the finger by a bat ...

Australian man dies from 'extremely rare' rabies-like infection transmitted by a bat bite, highlighting the dangers of ...

An Australian man has died from an "extremely rare" rabies-like infection after being bitten by a bat, health officials said ...

An Australian man in his 50s has died after being bitten by an“extremely rare” bat virus that caused rabies-like infection, ...

A northern New South Wales man has died after contracting the state's first confirmed case of Australian bat lyssavirus. The ...

A man in his 50s from northern New South Wales died after contracting Australian bat lyssavirus, marking the state’s first recorded human fatality from the disease. At such a critical moment in US ...

Shutterstock Image A man is in critical condition after he contracted a rare bat virus while in Australia. It's the first ...

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