Researchers have uncovered the oldest confirmed case of the plague outside Eurasia in an ancient Egyptian mummy, suggesting that the deadly disease was present in North Africa thousands of years ...

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 ...

Uh, Bubonic Plague is uh, carried by uh, fleas uh, on the backs of rodents. Uh, in the Middle Ages, probably black rats were most common and…. Ben: But the fleas were the actual culprits.

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 ...

At the end of the 14th century in Europe, scores were dying from the Black Plague and nobody knew why ... from homes ahead of Passover deprived rats of food and shelter, helping to stymie the ...

The worst plague in history was the Black Death, which may have killed up to ... in a certain type of flea that lived on rats. In fact, when scientists in the 1900s were looking for the cause ...