1.   Despite the sanitation hazards and potential rat bites, he does his job with no protective clothing and no protective gloves.

2.   She told of plugging holes in bathroom floors with plastic and paper, and she told of a rat bite that sent her husband to the hospital.

3.   Rat bites were a main cause of hemorrhagic fever, rat bite fever and other epidemic diseases, it added, urging an all-out civilian war against the pests.

4.   Bubonic plague spreads through rat flea bites while the highly-infectious pneumonic variety is carried through germs in the air.