‘Look, but don’t touch’ urges Queensland rabies expert

Leading travel health pioneer will issue Queenslanders with a public health warning this Saturday, September 28 (World Rabies Day) about the risks associated with a disease that kills an estimated 55,000 people each year. This life-threatening virus, first discovered in Australian flying foxes (commonly known as ‘fruit bats’) in 1996, is responsible for three Australian…

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World Rabies Day 2013 is fast approaching!

It is the sum of every individual event, large and small, that makes World Rabies Day a global movement Saturday, September 28, 2013 marks the sixth annual World Rabies Day, co-sponsored by the Global Alliance for Rabies Control (GARC) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). World Rabies Day aims to raise awareness…

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