Pets that spend time outside in the yard can carry fleas from your yard inside your home and onto your carpets and furniture.

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 ...

But people assumed the rats caught the disease from humans. In 1897, Japanese physician Masanori Ogata wrote "one should pay attention to insects like fleas for, as the rat becomes cold after ...

Every now and then we have a plague of fleas, which seem to be especially attracted to me and bite me everywhere. At the moment I have 70 bites all over my body, because a rat carrying fleas got ...