known as the Black Death. It’s clear that rat fleas played a major role, but some population studies have suggested that ...

Experts have seen a re-emergence of the rare diseaseMedically reviewed by Renee Nilan, MDFact checked by Nick ...

The bite of rat-borne fleas infected with the bubonic plague has been blamed for disease transmission during the medieval pandemic Rats were not to blame for the spread of plague during the Black ...

She explained, "Murine typhus is a rickettsial disease caused by Rickettsia typhi, a bacterium that spreads to humans through infected fleas, commonly the oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis ...

Bubonic plague, or "the black death," had raged throughout ... Ogata wrote "one should pay attention to insects like fleas for, as the rat becomes cold after death, they leave their host and ...

The plague seems like a disease of a distant century, conjuring up the rat-infested cities of medieval ... the skin as a deep red and turned black. As fleas reappeared each spring, so did the ...

The Yersinia pestis bacteria from fleas carried by ... New Orleans faces a pernicious rat situation because the city is going after not just brown rats, but also black rats. Each place requires ...

RAJASTHAN, INDIA A rat perches on a rail in Karni Mata Temple. It is one of some 25,000 “holy” black rats that are ... that may have been borne by fleas carried by rodents—decorate the ...

From spines on neurons to pollen on an insect’s eye, the winners of Nikon’s Small World photo contest offer a kaleidoscopic ...

From 1956 through 2018, the modest house in a working-class neighborhood belonged to the Christopher family. But after the ...

On a crisp October afternoon on Sunday, Oct. 20, a variety of local artists gathered in Athens to celebrate the joy of art ...

Nearly 70% of global communities will likely be living in urban areas by 2050, according to the United Nations. Rats will, ...