Doctors and scientists reported a case of Seoul virus infection in a woman. The Seoul virus belongs to the hantavirus family and can be transmitted by rats. In their publication of the case in the ...

The bacterial disease, spread through infected animals' urine, is very rare in humans but can spread through contact with infected body fluids Berkeley, Calif., city manager Paul Buddenhagen said ...

A 44-year-old woman in central Germany nearly died from a virus most people have never heard of, transmitted by creatures increasingly found in living rooms across the country: pet rats. The culprit ...

A young California man died from the same rare rodent-linked virus that killed Gene Hackman’s wife in February — with health officials discovering rat droppings at his workplace following his untimely ...

A cross-species immunocytochemical study of mole voles and mole rats reveals how rare tetraploid spermatocytes form ...

Thirteen people in eight states have contracted the Seoul virus, a virus carried by wild and domestic rats, according to the most recent CDC update on the outbreak. The following states have reported ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — A four-year-old pouched rat gave birth to five healthy pups. This is Acacia's second litter, marking a significant milestone at Utah's Hogle Zoo. "Successfully breeding pouched ...

Doctors and scientists from the University Hospitals Leipzig (UKL) and Mannheim (UMM), and the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) at the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI) and the Bernhard ...

A California resident has died after coming into contact with several rats. On June 10, Berkeley city manager Paul Buddenhagen warned of the existence of leptospirosis in some of the city's rats after ...