I was just petting an orange tabby cat in my Falls Church, Va., neighborhood, a cat I’d never met before. He was purring and butting his head against my hand. Until he wasn’t. He sunk h… ...

The odds the cat that bit me was rabid were, I’d guess, almost zero. He was probably someone’s pet and didn’t appear to have any symptoms. But rabies is fatal.

Rabies is not the only possible complication of a cat bite. Many bites become infected, which is why I left my urgent care visit with a 10-day supply of amoxicillin, an antibiotic.

But this isn't a cute thing that they do; they have sharp teeth that can make deep punctures on the skin, and those bites hurt! ... but also cat scratch fever, or in rare cases, rabies.

Cats’ teeth are sharp and pointy. When they bite you, they are essentially injecting bacteria deep into your skin’s tissue. The puncture hole can quickly seal over and trap bacteria from the ...

Rabies is always present in Maine wildlife, and the local ebb and flow of cases is largely unpredictable. Brunswick, Bath’s neighbor to the west, had experienced a similar surge in rabies a year ...

To help, the department is offering a free rabies vaccination clinic for dogs, cats, and ferrets, open to anyone in the county on Wednesday, June 14, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at Morningside Park in ...

Rabies is not the only possible complication of a cat bite. Many bites become infected, which is why I left my urgent care visit with a 10-day supply of amoxicillin, an antibiotic.