South Africa is faced with an enormous and ever-increasing rat population that could cause serious diseases such as bubonic ...

A WOMAN has died of Lassa fever, an Ebola-like disease also known as 'rat fever', prompting urgent contact tracing. The horrific virus can cause bleeding from the eyes, though 80 per cent of ...

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A social media snake-handler and conservationist known as South Africa’s Steve Irwin has died a month after being bitten by a highly venomous snake. Graham “Dingo” Dinkelman won hundreds of ...

An Indiana mother, Angel Schonabaum, has been sentenced to probation after her 6-month-old son was found severely injured, with more than 50 rat bites covering his body. The sentencing follows a ...

Prosecutors said while mother was not living in the home when her son was found with rat bites, she contributed to the home’s dangerous living conditions. Getty Images/iStockphoto The mother of ...

The mother of a baby found covered in rat bites in 2023 has pleaded guilty to her role in creating the home’s “deplorable living conditions,” Indiana officials said. McClatchy News is not ...