Evidence from 13th-century chroniclers and physicians indicates plague may have been involved in epidemics a century before ...

The analysis of the periods in which the testimonies were recorded indicates that the great majority of the analyzed century ...

"It seems that we are really close to the origin of the bacteria." A Stone Age hunter-gatherer who lived in present-day ...

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 ...

Similarly, ancient Egyptian medical texts give advice on how to cope with lice and fleas, which indicates people at the time ... and fly pupae show how bodies were attacked by other pests after death.

And those fleas could have been carrying the bacteria that causes plague — the Black Death. “It’s not great,” commented ... In 1900, the disease arrived in North America via San Francisco, carried by ...

Where's Coronation Street's Craig Harris star now from Death In Paradise role to famous parents The fee for two visits to rid them of cockroaches goes up by 2.5 per cent from £200 to £205. The cost of ...

The rats die slowly from internal bleeding. Corrigan hates to inflict such a death, but he fears outbreaks ... Roof rats—Rattus rattus, also known as black rats—are a global species as well.

The author made a few bucks donating sperm back in the day. Thirty years later, there was a phone call. Then another one.