Most rats infected with the virus do not appear sick. People typically become infected when they are exposed to body fluids (blood, saliva, urine) from infected rats or are bitten by them.

The plague sounds like a distant threat, but a small number of serious cases of the disease occur every year. Experts explain ...

This time, the rats infected with E. coli as newborns froze 70 percent less often than the rats who'd been injected with salt water as newborns.

“If you have pet rats you feel could be infected, or if you or your loved ones have been in contact with pet rats and have any symptoms of Seoul virus, you should contact the department at 1-877 ...

Pennsylvania Real-Time News Pa. finds infected rat, leads to euthanization of others Updated: Feb. 16, 2017, 6:03 p.m. | Published: Feb. 16, 2017, 5:03 p.m.

Orthohepevirus C includes strains from rats. The Hong Kong patient is a bit of a puzzle, as nobody really knows exactly how a human could be infected by a strain that affects rats.

Eight people have been infected with the rare Seoul virus, according to CDC. — -- Federal and state health officials are investigating an outbreak of the dangerous Seoul virus, which has ...

For control experiments, sera from uninfected SD (Sprague Dawley) rats and those infected by the Sialodacryoadenitis virus, Parker’s rat coronavirus (CoV), or other rat CoVs were analyzed.

NEW YORK (WPVI) -- There are three cases of a bacterial infection caused by rat urine, one of them fatal, in the Bronx according to New York City officials.