Large Gambian Rats Worry Fla. Officials
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The Florida Keys, already dealing with invasive exotics from melaleuca to iguanas, have added another to the list of unwanted newcomers: the African Gambian pouch rat.
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People who handle rats in labs or keep  them as pets are at risk of contracting a rare but potentially  deadly disease called rat-bite fever, U.S. health officials  said on Thursday.
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MEXICO CITY - Officials in northern Mexico are offering rewards to people who kill hordes of rats that dozens of cats could not conquer.
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Officials are concerned about the possible spread of serious ailments such as cholera, typhoid and malaria and also issued warnings about the bird flu virus.
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A plethora of prairie dogs present around Hall, S.D., has prompted debate over whether the burrowing rodents should be killed off to benefit cattle ranchers.
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Kiruna, a mining town in north Sweden, has been invaded by thousands of rats thought to have crossed the border from Norway with garbage shipments for the local recycling center, officials said Tuesday.
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The Clackamas County Vector Control District will ask voters in November to more than quadruple its budget for mosquito control, amid concerns about the spread of the West Nile virus.
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A case of bird flu in Thailand sparks fears of human to human transmission.
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The threat to orangutans from illegal logging may be greater than has previously been predicted.
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As the rising sun danced across Florida's coastal waters, government workers in shorts and T-shirts knelt in a grassy island field and plucked wriggling rats from traps laid the night before.
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CASSELBERRY, Fla. - Police say they're sure they shot a four-foot-long, 80-pound monitor lizard that had been lurking in an Orlando suburb for months. Still, neighbors aren't ready to let their children or pets back outside until they see a carcass.
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With swarms of locusts threatening crops in a number of African countries, a U.N. agency appealed for an additional &#36;70 million in assistance Thursday to prevent the upsurge from becoming a full-scale plague.
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An obsessive, fearsome rodent assassin in Mumbai, India, is a dying breed in a city whose dreams of being rat-free recede year by year.
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VILANCULOS, Mozambique  - A giant African rat has  become man's second-best friend as it joins forces with the dog  to sniff out land mines in Mozambique.
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An animal rights group called Monday for China to treat rats with kindness and respect, as millions across the nation begin to celebrate the coming Year of the Rat.
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In an effort to prevent the spread of anthrax into the capital, the Jakarta administration has temporarily banned livestock supplies from Bogor regency, where a number of villagers in one district have died or fallen ill from the disease over the past week
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MEXICO CITY - Officials in northern Mexico are offering rewards to people who kill hordes of rats that dozens of cats could not conquer. Citizens who have the stomach for it can make $.40 for each rodent they kill in Guadalupe y Calvo, Mayor Jesus Velazquez told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Monday...