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No. Bubonic Plague is transmitted by fleas carried by infected rats or people. The pathogen is typically carried by rodents. In the case of the waves of plague that ravaged Europe and the Mid-East in the middle ages, it was carried by rats and other infected humans.
The disease you may be confusing bubonic plague with could be cholera which is transmitted by contamination of water by an infected person's feces.
Answer:No, it was caused by rats, but not their excrete. the bubonic plague and pneumonic plague were started by rats who jumped off a ship that had come from countries infected with the plague. It wasn't actually the rats that started it, either. fleas travelled in the dirty hairs of the rats and then flourished in the grime and unhygienic areas near London. The plague spread quickly throughout England and Ireland, and only a small part of Scotland was not affected. 1 in 3 people died, altogether. Many towns and villages were quarantined to stop the plague spreading.
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How did you get pneumonic plague from bubonic plague?
You got it through a rat flea that infected you.
Did a animal start the bubonic plague?
yes, it was the flea wich fed on the rat
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.
What type of rat spread the Bubonic Plague?
The original carrier for the plague-infected fleas thought to be responsible for the Black Death was the black rat, and it has been hypothesized that the displacement of black rats by brown rats led to the decline of bubonic plague. This theory has, however, been deprecated, as the dates of these displacements do not match the increases and decreases in plague outbreaks. ~ From Wikipedia ('Brown Rat')
What insect can give you bubonic plague?
The Bubonic Plague was a disease carried by the flea, who spread the disease by infesting rats. When the rat died of Bubonic Plague, the flea would search for another host to feed on, namely humans.
How often does the bubo appear in bubonic plague outbreaks?
it apperes under the skin from a flea bit that bit a rat to receve the plague.
What is known today about how the bubonic plague is caused?
In a nutshell, bubonic plague is an infection of the lymph nodes resulting from the bite of an infected flea. The flea gets infected by biting an infected rodent, usually a rat or mouse. When the rodent dies, the flea seeks another host--another rodent or a human.
How is the bacterium that causes bubonic plague transmitted?
It is transmitted by a bite of an infected flea that lives on a rat.
What connection was there between witchcraft and the bubonic plague?
rats <><><> Bubonic Plague is transmitted by fleas, which were carried by rats. There was a fear of witches, and of the "familiar" of a witch- the cat- so cats were killed. When cats were killed, rat population increased. Increase in rats meant more cases of bubonic plague.
What can a mouse or rat plague affect a rural community?
http://www.themiddleages.net/plague.html Rats / mice can carry fleas that carry the "Black Death" or bubonic plague.
Why were rats not affected by the bubonic plague?
It is believed so. Actually I learned that from Ratatouville on the bonus features "My friend the rat" it said that the Brown (Nowegian) Rat actually stopped the plague.
What is a rat flea?
The Oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis) is a parasite of rodents, primarily of the genus Rattus, and is primary vector for bubonic plague and murine typhus.
