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In what year did doctors discover that the plague was carried by fleas on rats?
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1894
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What animal carries the plague?
The plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which is carried by fleas, which were carried by rats.
The bubonic plague was carried by?
The carrier of this plague is the rats the carrier of the plague is actually fleas and ticks because they bite the rats and give them the plague. So the carriers of the plague are most rodents, ticks, and fleas.
How come fleas and rats don't get plague when it's on them?
Fleas carried the plague because they carried bacterium through their bites and the bacterium carried the plague, and rats did not get it because the fleas landed on rats and then jumped to other animals and possibly humans.
What transmitted the plague to humans?
The plague was carried by rats, who were infested by fleas. As the rats succumbed to the plague, the starving fleas fed on humans infecting them with the plague.
Do domestic rats carry plague?
No, rats never carried plague. It was the fleas that they carried. Domesticated rats don't have fleas. Even wild rats are very clean and any fleas they do have don't carry plague much anymore.
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 spread the plague?
(The fleas carried on) the Black Rat.
What type of diseases do fleas carry?
Bubonic plague and Cat Scratch disease can be carried by fleas.
Was the plague carried in the blood?
Yes. Plague-carrying fleas fed on humans, and the plague germ got into their blood.
Where is the Black Bubonic Plague stored?
in the fleas that were carried around on rats
How is the black death plague spread?
By fleas which were carried around by rats.
What disease is spread by rat fleas?
The rats and fleas carried the black death ** Correction... Rat fleas carried the Bubonic Plague. There is still speculation as to whether the black death was actually bubonic plague as there are very many differences between the pandemics. One theory is that the black death was actually Ebola.
