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 ...

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 ...

Uh, Bubonic Plague is uh, carried by uh, fleas uh, on the backs of rodents. Uh, in the Middle Ages, probably black rats were most common and…. Ben: But the fleas were the actual culprits.

The worst plague in history was the Black Death, which may have killed up to ... in a certain type of flea that lived on rats. In fact, when scientists in the 1900s were looking for the cause ...