Rats that have been mummified in tar for over 600 years could shed new information on the Black Death. One of the deadliest pandemics in human history, the plague killed vast swathes of Europeans ...

"It was remarkable to discover a domesticated sheep from the Bronze Age that was infected with LNBA plague. This gave us an important clue for how plague could transmit within pastoralist communities ...

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 ...

A wave of concern has swept across the United Kingdom following a recent health scare that has reignited fears of a potential ...

He said: “I was also accused of staging stuff, like I was making a Hollywood movie about rats taking over. I was even accused of painting white rats black. “But the situation was 100% real. The city ...

The strikes, the result of long-running pay and working condition disputes, have caused local rats to "grow to the size of cats". Article continues below The latest incident on Wednesday unfolded ...