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Yes, they did get sick from the plague, in fact they were one of the animals in the chain of links which enabled us humans to catch the plague, (from the flea bites the rats were getting).
In general this was bad for all the countries affected by the black death as it would leave the villages, towns, cities etc in a bad condition, which could cause even more disease in the long run.
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∙ 13y agoYes, but they not the transmission vector for the Bubonic Plague to humans. Rats are the carrier for the actual vector, the rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis). The disease was transmitted by the flea, which would bite the infected rat, pull the bacteria into their body, then transmit that bacteria to a human (or other rat) when the flea bit them.
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∙ 14y agowell, rats have disease which is spread by traveel
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What caused the plague of the 1600s?
the causes of the plague was the fleas on the rats they bit the rats and then when the rats died they moved on to bite the humans
Where did the rats get the black plague from?
they were the ones that carried the fleas that had the germ which caused the black plague
What animal carries the plague?
The plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which is carried by fleas, which were carried by rats.
Why did the black rats start the great plague?
The rats carried fleas that actually caused the plague. The rats were carried throughout Europe on ships carrying trade goods.
What was the plague caused by?
fleas on that live rats its not the fleas it was the blueberries
What insect caused the spreading of the bubonic plague?
the fleas on rats in the cities
What realy caused the plague?
black rats that carried infectious insects.
What do people today think caused the plague?
Fleas that jumped on rats then killed them, then they jumped on humans and they caught the plague! I hope that helped!!! :)
Can Rats Make humans Sick?
Pet mice and rats do not carry any diseases. Wild rats caused the black plague in the middle ages.
What animal caused the great London Plague of 1665?
Fleas carried on rats.
What is a sentence for black plague?
The black plague claimed millions of lives.We believe the black plague was caused by the fleas that rats carried, aided by poor sanitation.
How is the plauge prevented?
In the days of the plague no one new that it was caused by rats and fleas. They thought it was caused by many different things e.g Swearing, Drinking alchol on and Sunday etc. They tried to prevent the plague by not doing these things but the plague wasn't caused by that do therefor they didn't prevent the plague.
