T he Black Death, a deadly bubonic plague pandemic in the 14th century, caused widespread havoc, claiming around 200 million ...

The summer heat has crept in — and with it the critters that have owners and pets alike itching. Fleas, in particular, have a ...

The summer heat has crept in — and with it the critters that have owners and pets alike itching. Fleas, in particular, have a ...

Rats and rodents pose significant health risks beyond mere annoyance, transmitting potentially fatal diseases like hantavirus ...

Fleas can lay up to 2,000 eggs in their lifetime, and in Indiana, the humidity and temperature allow them to reproduce from egg to adult in just two weeks.

Researchers discovered that the absence of one critical gene made the plague less virulent, and may have allowed two major ...

A single flea bite has caused a Texas man to lose several limbs over the past month. There are more than 2,500 different flea species found around the world, but only four are known to severely ...

A change to a single gene in the bacterium Yersinia pestis has enabled one of the world’s most notorious pathogens to survive ...

Reducing the copies of one gene in the bubonic plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, made it less deadly but potentially more ...

A small genetic change makes the bacterium that caused the plague less fatal but possibly more transmissible, allowing for ...

A shocking video of thousands of tiny sand fleas is going viral on the Space Coast. A longtime beachgoer captured the sight in Satellite Beach. Posted May 30, 2025 8:57pm EDT ...