With winter in full swing, rodent infestations have become an unwelcome reality for millions of Americans. As temperatures drop, mice and rats seek warmth and food indoors, turning homes into ...

Even in Oregon, the Beaver State, beavers have long been seen as a source of fur for a waning group of trappers and a nuisance for landowners – pesky rodents akin to rats, killed ...

Most of those cases were in the rural western and southwestern U.S. A welder in central Oregon contracted it in 2012 when he pulled a rodent out of his choking cat’s mouth in 2012 — he ...