Battling fleas is no mere skirmish. These tiny pests hide in everything, even your hardwood floors. Here's how to safely rid ...

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 ...

The Hazleton Punk Rock flea market will occupy The Complex at 601 S. Poplar St., from noon to 6 p.m. Sunday. It’s a day ...

The good news is that options for flea and tick prevention abound. Whether you choose an oral treatment or a topical solution, keeping your pet safe, comfortable, and pest-free is the goal.

Public health officials say cool, wet weather has yielded a rodent population explosion, along with fleas that live on them and spread plague bacteria. They warn people to protect their pets with ...

In 1897, Japanese physician Masanori Ogata wrote "one should pay attention to insects like fleas for, as the rat becomes cold after death, they leave their host and may transmit the plague virus ...

The plague bacterium is carried to humans in the bite of a flea that has first feasted on an infected rodent. Initial symptoms — sudden fever, headache, muscle pain, nausea — are ...

Private tutor Tan Mei Lin used to enjoy spending nights unwinding at East Coast Park with her friends, sitting by the breakwaters. However, the 29-year-old has been avoiding the area lately ...

or inhaling dust contaminated with rodent droppings and waste Indirect transmission via ticks, mites, or fleas that feed on infected rodents before biting humans ...