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 ...

"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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

A California resident went camping in South Lake Tahoe and tested positive for a plague after a suspected infected flea bite, ...