The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has confirmed a Lassa fever case with a travel history to the United Kingdom.The Director General of the NCDC, Dr Jide Idris, in a public ...

In October 2023, officers from food health and safety were alerted to conditions Maje Worldwide, an African goods shop ... of a widespread infestation of rats and insects. James Chidume, the ...

The threat actor known as Dark Caracal has been attributed to a campaign that deployed a remote access trojan called Poco RAT in attacks targeting Spanish-speaking targets in Latin America in 2024.

Conservationists in Tanzania are training the rodents to smell trafficked animal parts and illegal timber in shipments from Africa to Asia. The fledgling program aims to harness rats' keen sense ...

One such initiative is of APOPO, a non-profit organisation, headquartered in Tanzania and working in 11 countries, that trains African giant pouched rats (nicknamed HeroRATS), to detect TB in ...

A tiny creature thrives in the heart of the enchanting southern African grasslands—meet the Southern African Vlei Rat. With its unassuming size and remarkable habits, this little rodent captures the ...

Rats have been effective in the detection of antipersonnel mines and home-made explosives in Mozambique, Africa, and based on the experience an estimated 700.000 square metres (70 hectares ...

MAYFIELD - Four domesticated rats were found in a cage on the side of Route 29 in Mayfield Monday, New York State Police said. Police Tuesday appealed to the public for help finding their owners.

Francisca Mutapi is the Deputy Director of the Tackling Infections to Benefit Africa (TIBA) Partnership and Deputy Board Chair of Uniting to Combat NTDS. She sits on the UK Foreign, Commonwealth ...

GLOVERSVILLE — A Gloversville man has been arrested, accused of setting a fire in the city and attempting to get it to spread to an apartment door, authorities say. Derek A. Kenney, 55, was ...

It is credited with saving more than 26 million lives and is critical to HIV programs in Africa, the continent hardest hit by the disease. There, health officials, experts and people with HIV have ...

Initially, his research centred on various marsupials, like the exquisite phascogale and included projects on the ecology of the Australian bush rat and the taxonomy of marsupial mice of the genus ...