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 ...

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 ...

Rats have long been associated with and blamed for the spread of plague, a disease that has killed over 200 million people throughout the past two millennia. The Black Death, a bubonic plague pandemic ...

bringing the bubonic plague with them. In a statement, PETA's director of animals in film and television Lauren Thomasson said, "A human is no more likely to be harmed or killed by a rat in real ...

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 ...

Recommended Videos The bubonic plague — nicknamed the “Black Death ... officials eventually figured out that fleas from infested local rats had to be the source. This 1920 flier urges ...

HERE’S a cheery thought just as spring has sprung. It’s exactly 387 years since the worst plague Worcester has ever suffered came to an end.

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