which then crossed over to black rats that traveled on ancient ships, consequently carrying the Black Death across the world, as noted by The New York Post. Yersinia pestis is usually transmitted ...

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 ...

On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...

Poet John Donne wrote these lines in his "Meditation XVII" as the feared Black Death ravaged his native London in 1624. The plague seems like a disease of a distant century, conjuring up the rat ...

The Black Death was a serious disease that killed millions ... This form was mainly spread by fleas carried by rats. Pneumonic plague attacked the victim’s lungs and was spread by personal ...