After she was first bitten in August, Shannon Neely's hand puffed up. Over the following days, her temperature soared. By Aug. 20, she checked herself into urgent care. Her condition, the doctor ...

Dear Doctors: Can you please talk about rat bite fever? Our son got bitten by a baby rat while he was cleaning out his garage, and he didn’t see a doctor. It turned out that he was OK, but I’m worried ...

POST FALLS, Idaho — A Post Falls man is recovering after contracting a serious disease from a rat bite. The man, Eric Lundholm, was bit in July while working for a rodent breeder in Post Falls. The ...

Philadelphia has the biggest household rodent problem in America, the report shows. In the City of Brotherly Love, 18 percent of homeowners and renters reported seeing evidence of a mice or rat.