Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A brown bear wades in the water on July 18, 2012, at the Dog Salmon River on the Alaska Peninsula. A man who was hunting on the ...

A Japanese man lost his little finger after being attacked by a bear in western Japan on Wednesday, police and reports said, the latest attack by the animals on humans. It came two days after human ...

Alaska health officials are alerting the public to the state's "first documented case" of a rare, potentially serious "seal finger" infection linked to brown bear exposure. In a bulletin released on ...

A healthy 29-year-old hunter just became Alaska’s first documented case of “seal finger” disease contracted from a brown bear rather than direct seal contact. The September 2024 incident near Ivanof ...

When a 29-year-old Anchorage man returned from a bear hunt on the Alaska Peninsula in September of 2024, he had a persistent and painful finger infection that defied easy diagnosis. His swollen and ...