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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.
What is the illness carried by rats?
Plague
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.
Where was the burbonic plague?
The burbonic plague aka the black death plague was carried over from the Medirerrahnean sea. To Europe
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
Rats and the plague?
Many believe that rats carried the black plague when in fact it was the flea the rat carried that actually carried the plague that is how people still got sick locked in a room with no windows is because they would get bit by the fleas (one of the reasons anyways)
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.
What did the victims of the black death do to soposedly ward of the plague?
they carried posies round with them to get rid of the plague.
How do you know rats had the plague?
rats carried flea's. the flea's carried the plague the people got the plague from the flea's but blamed the rats.
Who carried the black death to Europe?
No one did it was rats that carried black death (plague)
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.
