A family is mourning the tragic death of a 10-year-old boy who died from Rat Bite Fever that he contracted from contact with his pet rat. INSIDE EDITION talks to the family. This cute ten-year-old boy ...

There are fears of a resurgence of a serious disease as the number of rats rise in a popular park, a former councillor has ...

(Some) rats may be cute, but they are all disease vectors. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Here's reason No. 1,001 that you ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The mother of a girl diagnosed with rat-bite ...

Roxy Zafar only had her puppy Disco for 10 days before he became sick with leptospirosis and died days later. Now, she wants other pet owners to be aware of the disease so they don’t experience the ...

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 ...

Chris Tachibana writes: Could a giant, spit-sniffing rat save your life? Maybe — they can be better than humans at diagnosing tuberculosis. A pilot program in Tanzania is using trained rats to smell ...