"We’ve known that rats and other rodents played a role for ages," Schaffner said. "Now we know that body lice can transmit ...

Despite what you’ve likely heard, rats didn’t cause the Bubonic plague. More recent studies point to fleas and lice, which ...

Researchers thought the bacterium would infect fleas on rats, and when the rats died, the fleas would jump to humans, infecting them. Rats are also thought to be responsible for spreading more recent ...

This makes it easier for the rat to be caught and the parasite to complete ... the use of leeches in medical research. Infested by lice. videoInfested by lice In this short film Dr Michael Mosley ...

In one county in England, these "super rats" have built up such resistance ... munching on pesticide-laden cotton in the U.S. to head lice that won't wash out of children's hair, pests are slowly ...

All pets (rats, mice, guinea pigs ... On follow-up examinations (ten days after the second application of fipronil), no lice or their developmental stages were found and the animals' behavior ...