Avian flu, mad cow disease, hantavirus, black plague and other notorious ailments originated with animals and made the jump ...

The discovery of a third rabid raccoon in Amityville leads to a Suffolk health warning and calls for increased public ...

Some may call them dangerous wild animals, but for Stephen Kaspar, raccoons — or "masked bandits," as he calls them — are ...

Stephen Kaspar feeding a raccoon. “I would caution people that ... “There’s so much misinformation from diseases and rabies and temperament, and it’s baffling to me how misunderstood ...