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London’s Deadliest Pandemic – The 1665 Great Plague Explained!
London faced one of its deadliest disasters—the Great Plague. The bubonic plague, carried by rats and fleas, spread rapidly ...
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On This Day in 1900, the Bubonic Plague Hit the Continental United States, Spiraling Into an Epidemic That Killed 119 People
On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...
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Pastures Past: Plague rats in New Zealand in 1900
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 ...
Another unwelcome consequence of climate change: an explosion of urban rats
If scorching heat waves, destructive storms, prolonged droughts and rising seas aren’t enough to make some folks fear the ...
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10 More Incredible Horror Movies You’ll Never Watch Again (And Why)
Countless atrocities were committed during World War II, including international invasions, kamikaze attacks, exterminations, ...
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Another unwelcome consequence of climate change: an explosion of urban rats
murine typhus and bubonic plague, nor the mental health toll of living among them. The new findings, reported Friday in the journal Science Advances, are based on records of rat sightings in 16 ...
Watch out for rats: This is the reason why their numbers are increasing in US cities according to experts
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.
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Curse of the bamboo flower
The bubonic plague epidemic reached Hong Kong from southern China in ... The flowering produces such a vast quantity of seed that the rat population explodes, resulting in a 'rat army' of mythical ...