The words bubonic plague may sound like something from the Middle Ages but it was reported recently that a teenager in Kyrgyzstan had died of the disease - the first case in the country for 30 years.

New research has finally established the cause of a plague outbreak in Glasgow almost 120 years ago. A team at the University of Oslo said rats were wrongly blamed and the real culprits were humans.

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A team at the University of Oslo said rats were wrongly blamed and the real culprits were humans. Plague hit Glasgow in August 1900, with the initial cases amid the crowded and unsanitary tenements of ...