The Black Death was ... debate about which type of plague was most serious. Some scientists believe that bubonic plague was most serious because it was spread by rat fleas. Others think that ...

Poet John Donne wrote these lines in his "Meditation XVII" as the feared Black Death ravaged his native London in 1624. The plague seems like a disease of a distant century, conjuring up the rat ...

Scientists suspect that RV 2039, who was between 20 and 30 years old when he died, was infected by a rat ... plague’s origins remain murky. Historians have long thought that the Black Death ...

The Black Death, believed to be bubonic plague, possibly mixed in with anthrax ... Cantor: The…the fleas are the carrier. If the black rat dies, the fleas will seek to migrate to the closest ...

The term 'Black Death' specifically refers to the outbreak of the plague disease in the mid-1300s ... If a flea that had bitten an infected rat jumped onto a person and bit them, it would transmit ...

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 ...

The 14th-century global outbreak of bubonic plague, known as the Black Death, was the deadliest disease outbreak in recorded history, killing up to half of the European, Asian, and African populations ...