London faced one of its deadliest disasters—the Great Plague. The bubonic plague, carried by rats and fleas, spread rapidly ...

In a case report published in the New England Journal of Medicine, doctors explain how they figured out the source of her fiery symptoms—worms burrowing into her brain. By this point, she was alert ...

The Black Death is a disease I am sure most of us have heard of, with its bursting pustules, rats, and overwhelming death ...

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

Hot take: college is like preschool. College students must painfully relearn how to make friends and share their things. And, ...

Scientists sorted through data from more than a dozen US and foreign cities to determine what is driving the increase in rat populations in urban areas.

If scorching heat waves, destructive storms, prolonged droughts and rising seas aren’t enough to make some folks fear the ...

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 ...

Urban dwellers in Washington D.C., San Francisco, Toronto, New York City, and Amsterdam might have seen rats scurrying across their cities — and they're not imagining an influx. Rat populations ...

Rats are usually unwelcome visitors in our gardens – they are generally considered vermin and can spread potentially serious diseases, including Leptospirosis, which can lead to Weil’s disease. They ...

Two NYPD detectives allege in a bombshell lawsuit filed Saturday that they have become modern-day Serpicos, investigating police corruption at the highest levels only to be retaliated against by ...

There’s a saying that in a big city you are never more than six feet away from a rat. It’s an urban myth, but scientists are warning cities across the globe are becoming far rattier ...