The CDC describes rat lungworm as a parasite found in rats, whose larvae are shed in rat feces and then taken up by snails ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT/Gray News) - Lab rats at a college in Virginia are helping researchers better understand human behavior. Surprisingly, neuroscientists say humans and rodents share many ...

Rats are the tiny, scuttling creatures everywhere, it seems. Humans have lived alongside them for thousands of years, though ...

Rats are everywhere, just like people. They want what we want: warmth, shelter, food, family. The brown rat, also called the common, street, sewer, wharf, or Norway rat, probably evolved in Mongolia, ...

NEW YORK -- The New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has released a health advisory after multiple cases of human leptospirosis -- an infection that is associated to exposure to rat urine ...