N.Y. Swim Student Bitten by Rabid Otter
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PUTNAM VALLEY, N.Y. - A rabid otter latched onto, and bit, a 6-year-old boy who was taking swimming lessons at a small public lake Wednesday...
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A 15-year-old girl has become the first person to survive rabies without prior vaccination. Jeanna Giese, who had been in a grave condition and on a ventilator for a month, is now in an intermediate care unit for intensive rehabilitation.
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MILFORD, N.H. - A teddy bear has been implicated in 2,500 deaths. Of trout, that is. State officials say a teddy bear dropped into a pool at a Fish and Game Department hatchery earlier this month clogged a drain. The clog blocked the flow of oxygen to the pool and suffocated the fish.
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A school of Dolphins has saved a group of swimmers from a great white shark attack. The amazing rescue happened when lifeguard Rob Howes took his daughter and her friends for a swim off the northern New Zealand coast.
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Doctors in Wisconsin appear to have succeeded in their experiment to let a 15-year-old girl with deadly rabies fight the virus with her own immunity.
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A Nacogdoches man was in critical but stable condition after three surgeries aimed at saving him from a flesh-eating bacteria that infected him during a swim off the coast of Galveston County.
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By Julie Patel, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Dec. 17--The dead fish that Fremont High School teacher Laurie Turner and her students discovered years ago when they wandered out to the school's outdoor science lab shook them.
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By Kristin Zagurski, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Feb. 8--The indoor swimming pool at the Bellevue Days Inn has reopened, a month after state health officials ordered it closed when a swimmer suffered chemical burns in his throat.
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A popular Project Runway contestant contracts a potentially-deadly infection.
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Saved by a mobile phone with a near dead battery, Australian student Bjorn Bjorseth has recounted the terrifying ordeal of being tossed about by wild 10-metre waves in a tiny life raft for seven days.
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LONDONDERRY, N.H - A mother kicked, chased and eventually pinned down a rabid fox that bit her 8-year-old daughter while the girl was on a swing set. Pamela Berube, 39, of Hudson, had taken her eldest daughter to a flute lesson at a private home in Londonderry on Thursday.
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By J.R. Welsh, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Dec. 17--GULFPORT -- The Shaw family of Gulfport recently got some news that let them breathe a sigh of relief: Their young son, who was mauled by two dogs Dec. 3, won't have to undergo a series of painful rabies shots.
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The second fatal shark attack in Australia within a week claimed the life of an 18-year-old surfer off a popular Adelaide beach yesterday, in an area scientists are calling the predators&#39; &quot;Grand Central Station&quot;.
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A critically ill Wisconsin teenager who was bitten by a bat recovered after being put into a drug-induced coma and being given antiviral drugs.
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By Beth Daley, The Boston Globe  Jun. 4--When an April northeaster punched a gap through the long, sandy  spit that forms Nauset Beach in Chatham, local geologists and officials were  not overly alarmed.
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A 23-year-old Austrian is reportedly fighting for his life after he was bitten by a rabid stray dog during a holiday in Morocco.
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DOLPHINS herded four swimmers together then scared off a great white shark which had moved in for the kill. The 10ft predator circled as lifeguard Ron Howes, his daughter Niccy, 15, and two of her friends took a dip.