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 ...

Boy, 7, left with bizarre circular bite injury after being attacked by rare 'COOKIE CUTTER' shark. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT A young boy has received a bizarre injury after being bitten by a rare shark ...

The bite marks covering the swordfish were particularly unusual, being almost perfectly circular with "very clean edges." Walker, from New Zealand, has been a fisherman for over 35 years.