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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...