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What type of flea carried the Black Death?
The flea associated with the Black Death is the Oriental rat flea. There is a link below to an article on this flea.
What are some black death facts?
The black death was carried by the oriental rat flea which then was past onto the rats then humans
What insect carried the black death?
The Black Death was spread by fleas which lived on black rats.
How was the black death transmitted to humans in 2 ways?
The black death was transmitted in two ways, one by a flea that carried the bacteria in a saliva and the flea bit someone. The second way is called pneumonic plague. In this case, the bacteria travel to the lungs and one a person coughs another person can get the plague.
What were the causes of the Black Death?
All forms are caused by a bacterium called Yersinia pestis. The oriental rat flea carries this bacterium, and lives on the backs of rats. The flea inhales carbon dioxide exhaled from humans, and jumps through the air to feed on a new host. Back in the 1600's, people thought it was transmitted through the air, because the smell of the dead and dying was so awful. So The Oriental Rat Flea caused the black death, otherwise known as the plague.disease spread by fleas which communicated the disease from rats and to humans.
What type of flea carried the Black Death?
The flea associated with the Black Death is the Oriental rat flea. There is a link below to an article on this flea.
How was the flea get in contact with the black death bacteria?
The flea was a parasite on a black rat which carried the disease
What was the plague that caused death bite from a flea?
Black death was spread by flea bites. Flea bites transferred Yersinia pestis bacterium.
What was in the flea bite in the black death?
i duno why you asking me
Can you get diseases from flea bites?
One disease spread by flea bites was called Black Death.
How did the black death go?
25 million people die from the black death just because of a flea
What were the real causes of the black death?
Oriental Rat Flea
The horrible symptoms of the black death are caused by what organism?
the oriental rat flea b had caused black death
How did people probably fall vitcim to the Black Death?
Black Death was spread by flea bites. People came in contact with fleas and got infected.
What black death plague have to d with shakespeare?
the black Death had nothing to do with Shakespeare,the plague was caused by the Flea off the rat.
What are some black death facts?
The black death was carried by the oriental rat flea which then was past onto the rats then humans
What was the name of the flea who started the Black Death?
it wasnt a flea that started the black death it started from a ratANSWER:The pathogen that caused the Black Death is called Yersennia pestis. It is carried by fleas that live on rats and other rodents.
