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at that time of the plague people had poor hygiene which attracted rats to get comfortable at dirty areas and when this happened flees eventually got on them and the rats managed to get on a boat and as they moved around flees were spread and humans ought the disease
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How was the plage spread?
the plage was spread throughout animals, which carried fleas, and fleas carried the disease. china did not carry the disease, because they had boiling water.
How do modern scientists think the disease was spread?
They thought that rodents start the disease, because they can move and spread fleas.
Which famous historical disease did fleas help to spread?
The Bubonic Plague.
What insect did the black death use to spread the contagious disease?
It was spread by fleas carried by Black rats.
How did mice spread disease in the middle ages?
they carried fleas that carried the disease and when they bit they infected their victim
Who started the bubonic plague?
Rats and fleas carried the disease and spread it to the people of Europe.
What sourt of people might have helped to spread the black death?
It was not so much people that spread the disease as fleas from rats.
What cause the black plague in the middle ages?
The fleas on rats. The rats had a disease that the fleas got then jumped onto the people to spread the desease.
Who was to blame for the black death?
The infected fleas that spread the disease, The rats that carried the fleas, The ships that carried the rats from port to port. The Bacteria (Yersinia pestis), that infected the fleas.
What animal causes plague?
It was a bacterium that caused it, but rats and fleas between them were the vector which spread the disease.
What disease do brown rats sread?
The rats themselves do not spread disease, but the fleas that are in their fur was well known for spreading the Black Death in the Middle Ages.
How did the black death get from Asia to Europe?
The Black Death was spread by rats and the fleas they carried. The disease spread slowly across Asia as it moved through the rat population. Rats travelled on ships, which crossed the Mediterranean, and the rats got into various port cities, spreading the disease. The Black Death can be spread from person to person, but the spread is much slower and ends, in the absence of the rats and fleas.
