The finding supports the theory that the bubonic plague circulated in North Africa ... may have originated from fleas that lived on Nile rats, which then crossed over to black rats that traveled ...

On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...

Rats and rat fleas in many foreign ports are at times infected with the plague, an extraordinarily ugly disease that occurs in several forms, of which the bubonic, the Black Death of the Middle ...

Millions of rats were killed and in 2 months no new cases of plague were reported. Bubonic plague, or "the black death," had raged throughout Europe and Asia over the past centuries. In the ...

Well, believe it or not, the plague is still around. Blame fleas and the rats, mice, chipmunks, and squirrels they infect. Bubonic plague is caused by bacteria that live in fleas. If you get bit ...

The Plague of Athens killed tens of thousands ... beaked masks Why plague doctors wore those strange beaked masks Black Death discovery offers rare new look at plague catastrophe Black Death ...

Bubonic plague, or the ‘Black Death’ as it became known during the pandemic of the 17th century, is one of the most deadly diseases to which humans have ever been exposed. Black rats often live close ...

A new study has found that Washington, DC, has experienced the largest increase in its rat population, and their numbers are only getting larger. Published in Science Advances, the study analyzed ...

Kem Ormond takes a look at the world of farming back in the day. Bubonic plague conjures images of facing the Black Death during the Great Plague of London in 1665. However, New Zealand also had a ...

The Black Death is probably the most famous pandemic ... spread by infected fleas and transported worldwide by rats. And the plague itself? Well, it never actually went away.

Countless atrocities were committed during World War II, including international invasions, kamikaze attacks, exterminations, ...