Rats and fleas are usually blamed for the spread of the plague in Europe But lice may have been just as responsible for transmitting the disease When it comes to the spread of the plague ...

Despite what you’ve likely heard, rats didn’t cause the Bubonic plague. More recent studies point to fleas and lice, which ...

He and his colleagues then simulated disease outbreaks in each of these cities, creating three models where the disease was spread by: rats airborne transmission fleas and lice that live on humans ...

All pets (rats, mice, guinea pigs ... On follow-up examinations (ten days after the second application of fipronil), no lice or their developmental stages were found and the animals' behavior ...