California Man Dies from Rare Disease Linked to Breeding Wild Rats in RV

One California resident died from a rare disease contracted through direct contact with wild rats kept in an RV.

In California, a person who had been deliberately trapping, feeding, and breeding wild rats inside a recreational vehicle has died from a rare zoonotic disease — one that crossed the species barrier under conditions that made such a crossing almost inevitable. The case is less a story of bad luck than of the ancient, unforgiving logic of contagion: when humans dissolve the distance between themselves and wild creatures, the diseases those creatures carry do not remain theirs alone. Public health officials have long spoken of zoonotic risk in the abstract; this death gives that abstraction a hu

California Man Dies from Rare Disease Linked to Breeding Wild Rats in RV

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