A 8-year-old girl from Southern California is recovering from a bacterial infection called rat-bite fever, something she likely contracted via her pet rat’s saliva. The girl named Cali was treated...

In a correspondence to ProMED Mail, officials with the Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital in Kathmandu are reporting the first ever case of rat-bite fever (RBF) in Nepal. According to...

“Rat-bite fever” is a general term to describe two relatively rare bacterial infections: Streptobacillus moniliformis, also known as Haverhill fever, and Spirillum minor, also known as Sodoku. Both...

A six-month old Dillsburg-area, PA baby, who was bitten by a rat that was to be fed to the family’s pet snakes in late December and died on New Year’s Day, was determined to have contracted...