New York rats carry fleas that can infect humans with plague, according to a new study published in the journal Medical Entomology. On the subway, rats are not uncommon, although passengers react violently to them. “If rats carry infected fleas, this can become a source of transmission of the plague to humans, all that remains is ...

Rats, garbage and human waste may not be the biggest hazards in the New York subway. Specialists of the PathoMap project conducted studies of the composition of the DNA of the environment at 466 stations of the New York subway. They found the presence of about 67 types of pathogens, including the bacteria of the bubonic plague and ...