A Michigan patient has died after contracting rabies through a transplanted organ, health officials have confirmed in a ...

This marks the first human case of rabies in Michigan since 2009. Fewer than 10 people die of the virus in the US each year.

A Michigan resident has died from rabies following a kidney transplant at a hospital in Ohio. Investigations show that the ...

A Michigan resident died of rabies after receiving a kidney transplant from a donor exposed to the virus in Idaho, marking an ...

Rabies is nearly always fatal once symptoms appear, and fewer than 20 people have survived it in recorded medical history. This type of person-to-person rabies transmission is extremely rare but ...

After the CDC confirmed a kidney transplant caused a fatal rabies infection, three other organ recipients from the same donor received post-exposure rabies prophylaxis, according to NBC News.  In ...

Once rabies symptoms appear in infected people, the disease is almost always fatal. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Health officials are requesting area residents to be on alert and take precautions as a raccoon has tested positive for ...