New York City sanitation workers who collect trash and are often exposed to rats say they have been disparately represented ...

There are barely any places in the world where these four-legged vermin don’t exist. So unless your big city job will let you ...

New York City health officials are warning of a worrisome increase in the number of leptospirosis cases from contact with rat ...

Rats are not only a nuisance in your garden, but they can also spread harmful diseases. Here's how to deter them.

New York City has a new method it wants to try in its fight against rats: birth control. Here's how they plan to use it.

Residents of the Orangewood Village neighborhood say nothing is being done about a severe rat infestation in their building, ...

The Gauteng Department of Health has raised concerns about increased food poisoning incidents involving children.

The NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has released a health advisory about human leptospirosis -- an infection that ...

Forty-one children from Soweto mistakenly ate rat poison. The Department of Health in Gauteng is concerned about the rise in ...

New York exterminators currently kill rats using snap and glue traps, poisons that make them bleed internally, and carbon ...

New York City Council Member introduced legislation seeking to distribute contraceptives to quell rat overpopulation problem.

More than 40 toddlers were taken to hospital in South Africa on Monday after mistaking rat poison for sweets. "Upon medical ...