Black rats may not have been responsible for the numerous outbreaks of bubonic plague in medieval Europe, a new study suggests. Scientists instead say that giant gerbils from Asia were responsible for ...

For over half a century, an army of researchers warily scanned the Kazakhstan desert in the former Soviet Union for signs of a ferocious threat to public health... gerbils. The furry creatures ...

Marta Hernandez-Jover receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Rural Research and Development Corporations Andrew Peters is affiliated with the Wildlife Disease Association and ...