"What you need to know about China's new hantavirus will shock you;stay informed! Secret History uncovers the forgotten, mind ...

Blooms from this abundant plant occur simultaneously every 48 or 50 years. Here's why this causes a 'rat flood' and, ...

In the spring of 1993, a cluster of cases of acute, unexplained respiratory distress with high mortality drew public and scientific attention to the Four Corners area of the southwestern United ...

When a mysterious and deadly illness began to sicken members of the Navajo community in the Four Corners region of the ...

Rodent-borne hantaviruses are associated with two main clinical disorders in humans: hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome. Although hantavirus diseases can ...

They enjoy playing, wrestling, and sleeping together. However, it is not recommended to hold or pet a wild mouse, as it can carry diseases that may make people sick, including hantavirus, which can ...

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On a warm May day, an all-black domestic shorthair cat named Pepper entered his Gainesville, Florida, home and dropped a dead ...

At least eleven people have died in Argentina after becoming infected with hantavirus, a disease carried by rats and other rodents, according to a news alert from the World Health Organization (WHO).

It was the first auction I’d ever been to where I was actually concerned about hantavirus. They were almost all in terrible ...

In industrialized nations, polio, smallpox, rubella and measles may have been curbed but new threats like AIDS, Lyme disease, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome and West Nile virus encephalitis have ...

As sea ice depletes the bears are forced into closer proximity with human populations. Muscular, vicious and with teeth that can chew through metal and concrete, rats also carry any number of ...