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The fleas; but the rats carried the fleas. So in a sense both.
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What role did the fleas play in the black death?
Fleas transmitted the disease from rats to humans.
How was the disease of black death first communicated to Europe?
Rats to fleas, fleas to humans
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 caused the black death in Europe in the 14th century?
scientist think that the black death was caused by fleas who lived on rats. also fleas carried a disease called bubonic plague and when that disease killed most of the rats and when there were only very few rats to live on the fleas moved to humans giving them the disease.
What insect did the black death use to spread the contagious disease?
It was spread by fleas carried by Black rats.
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.
How was black death carried?
It was believed to be rats but know has found to be the fleas on the rats sucking blood and then transmitting the disease into the victims blood stream
How did fleas get the black death?
The fleas had a bacteria inside their body which was called Yerstinia Pestis. It developed in the fleas body which then bit rats. The black death originated in china and we don't know exactly how it did. Due to the unsanitary conditions of life in the middle ages the rats would get on ships which would be spread all over Europe and the fleas from the rats would get on and infect people.
How did the rats Catch the plague were they born with it include where you got your research?
The rats didnt actually get it, it was the fleas which were on the rats and the fleas carried the disease. It was just the rats that carried the flees.
Where and how did the rats get the black death?
It was carried by the fleas that lived on the rats.
