The disease was spread by a certain breed of flea that infected the rats, which in turn carried the plague broadcast. Approximately 1,000,000 of them were slain. Almost 100,000 of them were ...

New York City is set to battle a plague of rats in an upcoming survival horror. Lionsgate and producer Paul Brooks ...

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 ...

The plague seems like a disease of a distant century, conjuring up the rat-infested cities of medieval Europe. The word that terrified whole regions of the Earth is now commonly used in its ...