The 17-year-old from Charlottesville was stricken with rat-bite fever in January after being bitten when she tried to break up a fight among her three pet rats, University of Virginia School of ...

A teenage girl who was scratched when breaking up a scuffle among her three pet rats wound up in the hospital with an extremely rare case of rat-bite fever. The infection, which is caused by a ...

Aidan Pankey died in severe pain on June 11, 2013, two weeks after his grandmother bought him a pet rat for $7.49 at a Petco store in northern San Diego County. Aidan’s father Andrew Pankey sued Petco ...

A 17-year-old woman was infected with the rare, but treatable rat-bite fever, that developed from pet rodents that lived in her bedroom, report the doctors who treated her.

SAN DIEGO — A San Diego family is suing Petco following the death of their 10-year-old son from a bacterial infection that they say he contracted from his pet rat. Attorney John Gomez told The ...

A woman's pet rat gave her a potentially fatal illness known as "rat bite fever." Above, an image of the patient's foot showing a rash of small, red bumps, which is one of the characteristic signs ...

The San Diego County family of a 10-year-old boy who was killed by rat-bite fever has sued Petco, alleging the company sold them a pet rat infected with the disease. Aidan Pankey died last June ...

A snake owner has shared how her pet snake accidentally mistook her hand for a rat, leading to an unfortunate bite. Mia lives in Western Washington and has had her ball python Aphrodite for five ...