Rats have been observed snatching bats out of the air and eating them for the first time, raising concern about pandemic ...

The Hawaii Department of Health has confirmed a case of rat lungworm disease in an individual on the island of Kauai.

(CNN) -- For the first time, a case of rat hepatitis E has been discovered in a human in Hong Kong. A 56-year-old man has been diagnosed with the disease, researchers from the University of Hong Kong ...

If there's one thing that paralyzes me with fear, it's rats. While it was previously thought that rats couldn't spread hepatitis to people, a case of rat disease has been found in humans. The New York ...

Rats don’t just break into your food, gnaw at your stuff, and leave droppings everywhere—they also happen to be effective at spreading viruses to human beings through their droppings, urine, and ...

Watch out for this rat pack. Leptospirosis cases are on the rise, and after a health advisory was issued last week, New Yorkers are on high alert for the frightening disease that’s carried in rat ...

Rodents in northern Germany were spotted using two different hunting strategies at major urban bat hibernation sites ...

An ASU professor has enlisted the help of rats in his research to cure Parkinson’s disease and to treat stroke patients. Associate professor and neuroscientist Jeffrey Kleim and his group of student ...

When 4-year-old Kili first developed a cough of sorts, the owners of the mixed breed pitbull thought he was choking on something. But then things got worse — he suffered an infection of his central ...

(CNN) — For the first time, a case of rat hepatitis E has been discovered in a human in Hong Kong. A 56-year-old man has been diagnosed with the disease, researchers from the University of Hong Kong ...