None of this is particularly surprising. When it’s cold, rats and other small mammals burrow underground to stay warm. “This ...

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as the rat becomes cold after death, they leave their host and may transmit the plague virus directly to man." Paul Louis Simmond put all the accumulated observations together, made his own ...

The current recommended time for that vaccination, according to the Department of Health and Aged Care, is around April, with immunity at its strongest within the first four months - in theory ...

A relatively new response to those symptoms might be to reach for an at-home rapid antigen tests (RATs) for influenza, COVID-19 and other respiratory infections. David Muscatello, an associate ...

Physical examination revealed a scrotum with a circumference of 10 cm (other males of similar weight had scrotal circumferences of 7.5–8 cm) that was slightly cold to the touch. The rat showed ...