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

The finding supports the theory that the bubonic plague circulated in North Africa ... may have originated from fleas that lived on Nile rats, which then crossed over to black rats that traveled ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

and of bacteriological materials of suspected and real cases of plague of human beings and of rats extending over a decade. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

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

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Bubonic plague, or the ‘Black Death’ as it became known during the pandemic of the 17th century, is one of the most deadly diseases to which humans have ever been exposed. Black rats often live close ...

Countless atrocities were committed during World War II, including international invasions, kamikaze attacks, exterminations, ...

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