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A vampire bat is caught in a net in Aracy, in the northeast Amazon state of Para, Brazil, on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2005. The bat is being studied for research by assistants at the Goeldi Museum Research Institute of Belem. Continued deforestation of the Amazon region has sent thousands of displaced vampire bats carrying rabies sweeping across northern Brazil, where the flying mammals have bitten over a thousand people, and left 23 dead over the past two months, authorities said. (AP Photo/Mario Quadros) **FILE**

Illinois reports its first human case of rabies since the 1950s

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Illinois reports 2,035 new COVID cases, resumes J&J vaccine

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Health officials report 3,235 new COVID-19 cases, 24 deaths

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Illinois sets single-day vaccine record, reports 32 deaths

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Illinois reports 4,156 new COVID-19 cases and 71 deaths

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COVID-19 claims 125 more lives in Illinois, officials say

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2,818 new known Illinois COVID-19 cases and 35 more deaths

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Backlog of virus tests causes huge jump in positive cases

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Illinois reports 1,360 new COVID-19 cases and 25 new deaths

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Illinois COVID-19 fatalities at 7,954, with 37 new cases

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1,467 new confirmed Illinois cases of coronavirus, 14 deaths

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COVID-19 uptick puts 11 Illinois counties in ‘warning level’

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Judge orders inspection of nursing home where 10 people died

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Second Illinois residents dies of vaping-related lung damage

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State officials investigating Legionnaire’s at hospital

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Woman diagnosed with West Nile Virus, Illinois calls in CDC

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First West Nile mosquitoes found in Chicago’s north suburbs

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Illinois illnesses from insect bites increased by 58 percent

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State health department links death to synthetic marijuana

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In this 2018 photo, Richard &quot;Duney&quot; Long's family poses with his photograph at the family's Canton, Ill., home. At right is his sister, Jessica Kinsel, in the center is his mother, Sue Tisdale, and at left is is son, Ethan Long, who also lost his mother to opioid overdose several years after his father's death. Tisdale and Kinsel founded Duney's Defense shortly after Richard Long died in 2015 to address the growing opioid epidemic in Fulton County, and today they are working for the Human Service Center in Peoria to educate people in 28 counties in Illinois about opioids. (Leslie Renken/Journal Star via AP)

EXCHANGE: Son’s death spurs Canton mom to join opioid fight

By LESLIE RENKEN - Associated Press