The rodents are known for carrying diseases but how harmful are they? What diseases are carried by rats? Brown rats carry ...

Veterinarian Terry Smith is encouraging pet owners to stay alert after one of his recent patients, a mixed-breed pitbull named Kili, contracted rat lungworm disease and had to be put to sleep.

The rat is the preferred model organism in many fields of biomedicine, such as toxicology testing. But when it comes to disease models, rats have been upstaged by mice, which traditionally were ...

ACCIDENTAL HOST—The Story of Rat Lungworm Disease reveals the frightening spread of a foodborne parasite that invades human brains and now thrives in tropical areas of five continents ...

Rat lungworm disease typically infects humans after they eat raw fruits and vegetables contaminated by slugs carrying the small parasitic roundworms. -- The Maui News / CHRIS SUGIDONO photo A ...

FAPI PET—can detect the first signs of tissue remodeling in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), providing ...

A 56-year-old man from Hong Kong has developed the world's first human case of rat hepatitis E ... It is common for diseases to spread from animals to humans. More than 60% of emerging infectious ...