Rat-bite fever leads to boy’s death, Petco sued by family

Close-up of a brown rat with whiskers and shiny black eyes sniffing the ground outdoors.

It is understandable if you were to think that a disease called “rat-bite fever” was too on-the-nose and blunt to be a real medical condition. However, it most certainly is a real condition, and a fatal one if untreated. Rat-bite fever doesn’t even require that a person be bit by an infected rat. A scratch […]