On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...

A new study has found that Washington, DC, has experienced the largest increase in its rat population, and their numbers are only getting larger. Published in Science Advances, the study analyzed ...

Barrett-Hamilton, G. E. H., and Hinton, M. A. C., "History of British Mammals" (1910–21).

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Rats and rat fleas in many foreign ports are at times infected with the plague, an extraordinarily ugly disease that occurs in several forms, of which the bubonic, the Black Death of the Middle ...

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 ...

However, New Zealand also had a brush with plague rats in 1900, as seen in the newspapers below. Wellington, July 6. The Premier’s statement is verified that plague existed in rats in places ...

As Brits plan to batten down the hatches for whopper Storm Éowyn, which is expected to bring life-threatening winds, massive rodents are also looking to get out of the wind and the rain ...

Hot take: college is like preschool. College students must painfully relearn how to make friends and share their things. And, college students’ immune systems seem to have a major regression, becoming ...

PETA plans to protest this Sunday's Academy screening of director Robert Eggers' "Nosferatu." The animal rights organization plans to send a "giant rat" to the Samuel Goldwyn Theater to "set the ...

The port of Leith was particularly vulnerable, as ships from plague infected areas overseas harboured rats that infected Leith’s unfortunate locals. The outbreak in 1645 proved the most ...