All posts tagged "Rats"
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948Health NewsNigeria Facing ‘Unprecedented’ Lassa Fever Outbreak
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control announced that at least 78 people have died and 353 have been infected in an “unprecedented”...
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1.0KScience NewsNew Kind Of Giant Rat Found In Solomon Islands
Scientists in the Solomon Islands have discovered a rodent that up until now, had been thought to be no more than a...
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1.4KHealth NewsCases of Rat Lungworm Disease Increase In Hawaii
There has been a sudden increase in the number of cases involving a brain-invading parasite in Hawaii, health officials in Maui confirmed....
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1.5KHealth NewsRats Infect Residents In The Bronx With Leptospirosis
Rats have been spreading disease in a building in the Bronx, killing one person and infecting at least two more. According to...
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1.7KScience NewsRats Dream Of The Path To A Brighter Food-Filled Future
New research on rats suggests that while they sleep, they dream of how to accomplish tasks— most specifically, those related to food....
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1.7KHealth NewsNew York City Rats, Fleas May Be Carrying Bubonic Plague
Scientists studying rats in New York City found the Oriental rat flea, which carries the bubonic plague, hosting on some rat populations...
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1.9KHealth NewsBubonic Plague May Have Been Spread By Gerbils, Not Rats, In The Black Death
Scientists believe they have solved the mystery of why Europe experienced outbreaks of bubonic plague over hundreds of years, beginning with the...
