It’s best known as being the cause of the Black Death, when rats carrying infected fleas came in contact with people in dense European cities. Infected fleas can either pass on the plague ...

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 ...

A simple experiment demonstrating that fleas transmitted plague from an infected rat to a healthy one proved Simond’s theory. The 14th-century pandemic wasn’t called the Black Death until later.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Authorities also covered open sewers, cleaned tenement houses, and tried to curtail the city's growing rat population to deal with the threat of bubonic plague. Authorities also planned to build ...

authority on the disease, details in his Rats, Lice & History ... typhus has caused more death and misery than cholera, bubonic plague, leprosy, tuberculosis, or any other human pestilence.