With temperatures soaring over the past few weeks, many of us have been spending more time outdoors, making the most of the ...

An animal bite or exposure is defined as having one's skin pierced or abraded by animal teeth or claws, or by coming in contact with animal saliva or tissue on abraded skin, eyes, or mucus membranes.

PEOPLE are being warned about a bacterial infection that becomes a more glaring issue in summer. Lyme Disease is caused by a ...

Animal Bite-associated Infections Microbiology and Treatment. Nicole Thomas; ... from soil, dust or water) can also enter the wound, adding to the complexity of the infecting flora.

Their bite wounds are generally around 2 inches wide and 2.75 inches long. The cookie-cutter shark is a parasitic shark which attaches itself to larger fish, like the dolphin pictured.

In response to two recent rabies-related deaths in Kerala despite the victims receiving anti-rabies vaccination, the Tamil ...

CHENNAI: After a couple of rabies deaths in Kerala recently, the Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine (DPH) instructed the district health officers to train health care workers to ...

A viral image showing strange circular bite marks on a Tuna fish's body is giving people the creeps on social media. A professional angler, known as Trampman Bermagui, posted a picture of the ...

They may be our best friends, but dogs are still animals and they can bite. In fact, dogs bite about 4.7 million Americans every year, half of them children between ages 5 and 9. One out of every ...

The Karnataka Health Department has directed the government hospitals to provide Anti-Rabies Vaccine free of cost to all animal bite victims. Rabies was declared as a Notifiable Disease in the ...