SAN FRANCISCO — Authorities in San Francisco say their hands are tied when it comes to stopping a woman who has been breeding hundreds of rats in her home and then releasing them into public parks.

Turns out, rats don’t like getting hot and heavy. In a wafer-thin silver lining to the unbearably humid, miserable, no good, very bad heat waves that have body-slammed the Baked Apple so far this ...

WARNER ROBINS, Ga. — A condemned house on Angus Boulevard in Warner Robins has become a breeding ground for rats, creating serious health concerns for surrounding homeowners and pushing city officials ...

You know that rat problem that's been festering in parks and even some businesses as of late? Well, perhaps this has something to do with it. Apparently, a woman in San Francisco has been breeding ...

Doctors and scientists from the University Hospitals Leipzig (UKL) and Mannheim (UMM), and the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) at the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI) and the Bernhard ...