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 ...

Glasgow is in the middle of a “rat epidemic” as the vermin continue to “get bigger” and bring disease to the streets of Scotland's largest city, a waste expert at the GMB union has said.

Dr. Zinsser does not agree with them. According to his thesis, the disease developed among wild rats in the Orient, did not reach Europe as a human epidemic until the 15th Century. In the five ...

I represented the rat epidemic that was becoming very real for many Glaswegians. “And the council has finally seen sense and I’m very grateful for that.” Mitchell said his campaigning saw ...

This infestation is far from a few rogue rats but an epidemic of plague proportions which needs the most urgent and stringent of actions. It’s so serious that it’s almost as infamous as ...