Halloween is still two months away, and yet Rhode Island is having an "unprecedented bat season," with reports that 195 people here were exposed to bats in August, according to the state Department of ...

Rhode Island is experiencing an “unprecedented bat season,” state health officials said last week, and 200 people have recently had to get rabies postexposure prophylaxis, the vaccine series that ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — The R.I. Department of Health is urging everyone to be vigilant around bats amid an increase in Rhode Islanders needing rabies immunizations. The state is having an ...

EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Biologists with the Rhode Island Division of Fish and Wildlife (DFW) discovered the first-ever Eastern small-footed bat in the state earlier this month. The Eastern ...

(WJAR) — The Rhode Island Department of Health is letting the public know that a rabid bat was found near a park in Providence. The health department said the bat was found on Wednesday after its ...