A rat bite can happen suddenly, often when a person reaches into a drawer, lifts a storage box, or encounters a rodent hiding near food or waste. While the wound may look small, it can introduce ...

In addition to being an annoyance for your home during the rainy season, rats and rodents can cause a number of health problems, the majority of which are fatal. The recent deaths in the US from ...

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 ...

Streptobacillus moniliformis is a pleomorphic, Gram-negative bacillus and the principal agent of rat-bite fever, a systemic zoonotic illness characterised by fever, rash and migratory arthritis.