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The main carriers of the Bubonic Plague were fleas and rats. The fleas got it from the rats when they bit them. When the rats died, the fleas went to new hosts, bit them, and gave them plague in the process. Usually the new host was another rat, because rats hang together, but sometimes there was no rat to go to, and the fleas went to whatever animal they found.

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How was the black death killing people?

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Rodents,bugs,parasites(ie fleas)


How did people beilieved the black death spread?

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How do people today explain how the black death was caused?

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What animal is thought to have spread the black death?

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Where some people more likely to have the black death then others?

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