rabies

Learn about the Myths about Rabies in the Superstitions this Weekend

By |2018-03-06T09:07:44-07:00March 6th, 2018|Preparedness|

On Saturday, March 10, ADHS will join with the Arizona Game and Fish Department, Arizona Department of Agriculture, Maricopa County Department of Public Health, Pinal County Public Health Services District, U.S. Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services, and Midwestern University College of Veterinary Medicine to host “Madness in the Mountains: Debunking Myths about Rabies in the Superstitions.” This interactive event [...]

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World Rabies Day Celebrates its 10 Year Anniversary

By |2017-09-27T09:56:17-07:00September 27th, 2017|Preparedness|

On September 28th, partners around the globe will celebrate the 10th anniversary of World Rabies Day to raise awareness about the impact of rabies and how to prevent the disease. Rabies is a virus that can cause serious damage to the nervous system of humans and animals, and is almost always fatal once symptoms develop. [...]

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Take Precautions to Protect your Family and Pets from Rabies

By |2017-02-10T09:48:43-07:00August 18th, 2016|Preparedness|

Rabies is a virus spread by the bite of or contact with saliva of an infected animal. The disease causes damage to the nervous system and causes death once symptoms appear. In Arizona, bats, skunks, and foxes are the main sources of rabies. Rabies is not uncommon in Arizona wildlife, and the virus occurs naturally [...]

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Arizona’s First Rabid Domestic Animal in Seven Years

By |2017-02-10T09:48:52-07:00April 20th, 2016|Preparedness|

This week, Arizona confirmed a case of rabies in a horse from Santa Cruz County . This is the first case of rabies in a domestic animal in Arizona since 2009. The horse became sick and was eventually euthanized. Public health is assessing the risk of exposure for all people involved in caring for and [...]

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Detecting Scary Diseases

By |2017-02-10T09:49:49-07:00February 25th, 2014|Prevention|

Disease outbreaks can come from anywhere. In Arizona we’ve had illness from contaminated pomegranate seeds from the Middle East, measles from Switzerland, salmonellosis from African dwarf frogs and cholera from Peru. More recently a Canadian traveler died of H5N1 after she returned home from a long trip to China. An exotic disease from another country is only [...]

Bats, Foxes, and Bobcats

By |2017-02-10T09:50:24-07:00May 29th, 2013|General|

Every year we get reports of wild animals with bizarre behaviors like approaching people rather than running away, charging vehicles, latching on to arms of joggers and refusing to let go, even walking into a bar.  In many cases, these animals are found to be rabid. Bats are usually our most frequent reservoirs for rabies in AZ…  [...]

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The 3 Bears

By |2017-02-10T09:51:08-07:00June 26th, 2012|Preparedness|

The 3 bears submitted by Fish & Game to our State Lab ended up being negative for the deadly rabies virus. These bears are thought to be connected to the bear attacks, which happened in and around Payson recently. If separate DNA test results that were sent by Fish & Game for testing match the bears [...]

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Bear Brains

By |2017-02-10T09:51:08-07:00June 25th, 2012|General|

Some of our Laboratory scientists (Kathryn Fitzpatrick, Alexandra Bhatti, Heather Bickley and Charles Martin) are busy right now testing the brains of the 2 bears that were destroyed over the weekend to see if they had rabies.  You might have heard about the bear attacks, which happened in and around Payson recently. On Sunday, a [...]

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Neglected Global Tropical Disease Initiative

By |2017-02-10T09:51:19-07:00February 8th, 2012|General|

Last week marked an important milestone toward better controlling 10 neglected tropical diseases by 2020. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank, 13 pharmaceutical companies, the U.S., U.K. and U.A.E. governments and other global health organizations announced a new, coordinated push to defeat diseases like Dengue, rabies, blinding trachoma, Buruli ulcer, endemic treponematoses (yaws), leprosy (Hansen disease), Chagas [...]

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Bats, Rabies, & Schools

By |2010-05-04T06:53:35-07:00May 4th, 2010|General, Preparedness|

Bats are one of three rabies reservoirs in AZ – the others being skunks and foxes.  Our skunk rabies season often peaks during winter & spring (although last year – it went all year). Our bat season goes late-March through early-October.  Most (but not all) of the 28 species of bats in AZ do migrate [...]

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