The disease is typically treated with antibiotics ... The doctor's wrote in the journal to highlight that rat bites can cause leptospirosis — which can be difficult to diagnose.

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

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 saliva, according to the Centers for Disease Control. It can also spread ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ACCIDENTAL HOST—The Story of Rat Lungworm Disease reveals the frightening spread of a foodborne parasite that invades human brains and now thrives in tropical areas of five continents ...

People get hantavirus from contact with rodents like rats and mice ... also spread through a bite or scratch by a rodent, but this is rare.The syndrome is a rare lung disease that kills about ...

Four-year-old Kili, a mixed breed pitbull, had to be put to sleep after contracting rat lungworm disease, an illness that’s still rare in Hawaii. However, Kili’s veterinarian said he’s ...