According to the CDC, people can contract rat-bite fever from bites or scratches from infected rodents, such as rats, mice and gerbils, or even just by handling an animal with the disease without ...

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

It is not just a scourge of the Middle Ages. Plague still exists, though it is rare. Here’s what to look for and how to ...

A person in California recently tested positive for plague, according to El Dorado County health officials. The individual ...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The death of a 10-year-old San Diego boy from a bacterial infection he reportedly got from his pet rat prompted his family to sue retailer Petco, saying they want to raise ...

The disease is thankfully not nearly as fatal as when it sparked the infamous Black Death in England during the 14th century, ...

A South Lake Tahoe resident has tested positive for the plague — yes, the same pest-transmitted disease estimated to have ...

"This study suggests the Norway rats and lab rats may also be susceptible to infection with SARS-CoV-2 virus, but at this time there is no evidence to suggest that infected rats transmit the virus ...

In 2015, city rats were shown to be carrying fleas that could theoretically become infected with and transmit the plague. (An outbreak of bubonic plague carried by such fleas killed one-third of ...

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.