But now, there’s a new deadly virus that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is tracking. Lassa fever is a ...

A middle-aged patient has died from Lassa fever, according to an alert from a state health department. Here's what you need ...

Rather than rats in general, this is about a type of native wildlife ... Woodrats can also transmit certain diseases, most notably plague, in areas where this disease occurs. Dead or dying woodrats ...

Lassa fever most commonly spreads through the multimammate rat in West Africa. People can get sick after touching objects ...

One pest control company responded to their first call about the 'roof rat' two years ago. Now they're receiving calls about ...

Peking University-led researchers have modified an existing treatment for liver disease that does not cause itchiness, a ...

A WOMAN has died of Lassa fever, an Ebola-like disease also known as ‘rat fever’, prompting urgent contact tracing. The horrific virus can cause bleeding from the eyes, though 80 per ...

Lassa fever, a disease normally found in West Africa, killed an Iowan this week. The eastern Iowa resident had recently ...

And a single wayward rodent hiding in the tundra could spread disease and feast on eggs and chicks, to devastating effect. Enter the rat strike team. With an array of traps, field cameras and ...

South Africa is faced with an enormous and ever-increasing rat population that could cause serious diseases such as bubonic ...