1.   Compared with the control animals, both groups of infected rats exhibited a significantly different fluid transport.

2.   If infected rats escaped the proposed UTMB lab, they would pose little, if any, threat to neighbors, he said.

3.   Infected rats carry leptospira in their kidneys and excrete them in urine.

4.   It is generally a disease of rodents and is spread mainly from rats to humans by fleas that bite an infected rat and then a human.

5.   The highly contagious, respiratory disease is spread by rats or fleas from infected rats.

6.   Bubonic plague is a contagious disease transmitted by fleas from infected rats.

7.   Bubonic and pneumonic plague are highly contagious bacterial diseases transmitted by fleas from infected rats.

8.   Infectious plague is a bacterial disease transmitted by fleas, mostly from infected rats.

9.   It comes from bacteria carried by fleas from infected rats.

10.   Lassa fever is spread by infected rats but infected humans can also pass it on, usually via bodily fluids.