A Michigan resident has died after contracting rabies through a transplanted organ, health officials have confirmed. In a statement obtained by PEOPLE, the Michigan Department of Health and Human ...

Researchers found that antemortem testing could increase detection and lead to more timely public health interventions for human rabies, which is under-diagnosed globally.“Human rabies under-detection ...

FILE - This undated electron microscope image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows rabies virions, dark and bullet-shaped, within an infected tissue sample. (F. A.

A Michigan resident died earlier this year after becoming infected with rabies via a transplanted kidney.

TOLEDO, Ohio — EDITOR'S NOTE: This story has been updated with statements from the University of Toledo Medical Center, Life Connection of Ohio, and the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network.

Human rabies usually is associated with a known exposure to a rabid animal, but sometimes the patient has had no known animal contact. These cryptogenic cases of rabies are associated most often with ...

A Michigan resident who received a transplant in December died after having been infected with rabies from the new organ, the state health department said Wednesday. “A public health investigation ...