Disease-carrying fleas abound on New York City's rats
Monday, March 2, 2015 - 15:30
in Biology & Nature
In the first study of its kind since the 1920s, rats in New York City were found to carry a flea species capable of transmitting plague pathogens. Among them: 500-plus Oriental rat fleas, notorious for their role in transmitting the bubonic plague, also known as the Black Death.