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

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 ...

Studies suggest that the consumption of illegally traded wildlife can also lead to the spread of zoonotic diseases, such as the Ebola virus, monkeypox virus and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS ...

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

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

The team comes across a couple of dead rats in the alley along with one that looks sick that the team said will die shortly. “We don’t have a rat problem; we have a people problem,” Brooks ...

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