Discover the alarming parallels between the Treasure Valley rat problem and the historical Black Plague, shedding light on ...

The recent deaths in the United States due to hantavirus ... house rats and rodents are also carriers of multiple infectious ...

The state is grappling with the detection of avian flu and its potential jump from species to species. And about 125 years ...

distress and panic fear that it caused in the British Isles from The Great Pestilence of 1348 to The Plague of London in 1665, with a brief account of its transient reappearances between 1900 and 1912 ...

The port of Leith was particularly vulnerable, as ships from plague infected areas overseas harboured rats that infected Leith ... could now access better food due to there being less demand ...

Animal rights organization PETA slammed the new "Nosferatu" movie for its false and stereotypical portrayal of rats. Activists even claimed they'd bri ...

which was devastated by the Justinian Plague The outbreak in Constantinople (which is now Istanbul in Turkey) was thought to have been carried to the city by rats on grain ships arriving from Egypt.