Researchers thought the bacterium would infect fleas on rats, and when the rats died, the fleas would jump to humans, infecting them. Rats are also thought to be responsible for spreading more recent ...

Description that could be equated with the effects of the 'Black Death.' Researchers have theorized that fleas spread the disease throughout Egypt by accompanying Nile rats, after which they ...

Additionally, over 20 years ago, fleas were discovered ... which then crossed over to black rats that traveled on ancient ships, consequently carrying the Black Death across the world, as noted ...

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

At long last, it looked as though the Black Death was licked. Plague is caused by a bacillus, Pasteurella pestis, whose natural habitat is the rat. Fleas carry it from rats to humans. The disease ...

The Black Death was a serious disease that killed ... This form was mainly spread by fleas carried by rats. Pneumonic plague attacked the victim’s lungs and was spread by personal contact.

The plague seems like a disease of a distant century, conjuring up the rat ... Death, because of the characteristic spots that started under the skin as a deep red and turned black. As fleas ...