Rodents are implicated in the epidemiology of many of the vector-borne diseases in Europe; this chapter will consider only those infections that are directly transmitted from rodents to humans. This ...

Increased disease hazard An increase in the population of rodents might lead to an increase in pathogen abundance via an increased density-dependent transmission of zoonotic pathogens between rodents.

A six-month-old baby was almost bitten to death by rats after being found covered in blood with bone exposed in his parents' ...

Rodent-borne hantaviruses are associated with two main clinical disorders in humans: hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome. Although hantavirus diseases can ...

Is all this safe for the dogs? Mostly. They are vaccinated against leptospirosis, a common rat-borne disease, and because they shake the rats but don’t eat them, they don’t ingest poison that ...

One person has already been killed by the disease in New Hampshire ... EEE naturally resides in certain birds and rodents in the United States – mostly on the East Coast – and has also ...

Additionally, the rising prevalence of rodent-borne diseases is underscoring the need for preventive measures, while technological advancements are spurring the development of more efficient and safer ...

It is reported that rodents are the chain link ... of natural focal infections, tick-borne encephalitis and borreliosis. A number of interesting diseases have been coming to us, including tropical ...

To ascertain the financial costs to countries and individuals of vector and rodent-borne diseases many different aspects must be taken into account; one would have to determine the medical costs to ...

Pathogenic rodent-borne hantaviruses cause generalized infections ... There are at least 13 hantaviruses worldwide that cause disease in humans. Each of these hantaviruses have their unique ...

EEE naturally resides in certain birds and rodents in the United States ... conditions that influence the spread of mosquito-borne diseases. Climate change is leading to generally warmer ...