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Yersinia pestis, the Bubonic Plague bacterium, is fatal to rats, humans and fleas. The fleas which live specifically on rats are affected by the bacterium, which lives in their digestive tract and prevents them swallowing. rat fleas quite like human blood, but once having sucked some, find they can't swallow and regurgitate the blood back into the human. human contracts plague in one of 3 forms - bubonic, septicemic or pneumonic. oddly, bubonic is preferable, as the other two are almost invariably fatal. Human dies, rats nibble corpse, rats infected. fleas bite rat, then jump on fresh human....

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