A young woman has shared her horrifying experience of a rat climbing up her wheelchair and biting her hand in broad daylight ...

A 76-year-old man from Canada was hospitalised with a severe bacterial infection after he was bitten by a rat in his bathroom ... the man had an infectious disease called leptospirosis.

Hantavirus comes from contact with rodents — such as rats and mice — especially after exposure to their urine, droppings, and ...

Hantaviruses can infect and cause serious diseases in people worldwide, according to the CDC. People get hantavirus from contact with rodents like rats and mice, especially when exposed to their urine ...

Rat-transmitted diseases can be passed to humans through direct contact or breathing in dust contaminated with rat urine or droppings, or via a flea bite from an infected rat, NEA states on its ...

Rabies: Rabies is a preventable viral disease of mammals most often transmitted through the bite ... Program veterinary staff and the animal facility management staff. Rabies prevention post bite ...

Gene Hackman's wife, Betsy Arakawa, died of hantavirus. What is it? What are the symptoms? Are there any cases of Georgia?

Hackman had heart disease and complications caused by ... It can also spread through a mice or rat bite or scratch. However, it is less common to get hantavirus from a bite than from rodent ...

Deviations from normal weather patterns are putting several regions in the U.S. at risk for an uptick of disease-spreading pests, a pest-management group says.

The plague seems like a disease of a distant century, conjuring up the rat-infested cities of medieval ... The plague bacterium is carried to humans in the bite of a flea that has first feasted ...