Beware, the biting rat. (Credit: Shutterstock) Back in the 1980s, S.O.S. calls after midnight were common in the field of infectious disease. And as soon as my pager started to trill, I turned on my ...

The tragic death from "rat-bite fever" of a 10-year-old San Diego boy highlights the risk carried by the pet rodents, according to a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Rats are common pests in all parts of the world. They can cause property damage by chewing and burrowing. They also carry dangerous diseases that affect humans. One such sickness is rat bite fever.

An Australian woman who kissed and cuddled her pet rodents was admitted to the intensive care unit with rat bite fever. An article by South Australian Pathology employees, in Monday's Medical Journal ...

A U.S. teenager was diagnosed with rat-bite fever after being bitten by her pet rodent, a new report reveals. The 17-year-old was treated for the rare and serious condition after developing pain in ...

Science, founded by Thomas A. Edison in 1880 and published by AAAS, today ranks as the world's largest circulation general science journal. Published 51 times a year, Science is renowned for its ...

Police will not charge the parents of a child who died from rat bite fever.Six-month-old Landon Kreitz of Dillsburg, York County, was bitten on the finger at his home on the 500 block of South ...

SAN DIEGO — A San Diego family is suing Petco following the death of their 10-year-old son from a bacterial infection that they say he contracted from his pet rat. Attorney John Gomez told The ...

SAN DIEGO — A San Diego family is suing Petco following the death of their 10-year-old son from a bacterial infection that they say he contracted from his pet rat. Attorney John Gomez told The ...

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