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

Well, believe it or not, the plague is still around. Blame fleas and the rats, mice, chipmunks, and squirrels they infect. Bubonic plague is caused by bacteria that live in fleas. If you get bit ...

Honolulu officials thought fire could stop the bubonic plague from spreading through the growing city. But high winds ...

In the 1330s, bubonic plague broke out in China and ... since the risk of acquiring plague from a flea bite is low. Treatment, however, is highly effective using the antibiotic tetracyclene ...

Bubonic plague, or "the black death," had raged throughout ... Japanese physician Masanori Ogata wrote "one should pay attention to insects like fleas for, as the rat becomes cold after death ...

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 ...

Bubonic plague, or the ‘Black Death’ as it became known during ... Black rats often live close to humans and feed on stored produce such as grain. The fleas move from rats to humans who become ...

Fleas carry diseases including the plague ... It is these buboes that give bubonic plague its name. Around 50 per cent, or half or all those infected would die from bubonic plague.

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 ...