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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 ...

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 ...

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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.

The researchers did find a few different bacterial species from genus Bartonella, which can cause disease in humans, but they detected neither the plague bacterium nor the bacteria that can cause ...

Daily life in Birmingham amid an ongoing bin strike has become "tremendously difficult", residents said. Piles of bin bags have grown high on some city streets, as a pay dispute between workers and ...

While we often associate rats with dark alleyways and underground sewers, they are actually quite fond of exploring gardens. These hardy creatures have no qualms about rummaging through your bins ...