Firstly, Africa is not a country. It is a continent. Secondly, rats have existed in Europe, America etc, for as long as they've existed in Africa. It is racist to suggest that all vermin come from the motherland. F*** you.
Rattus rattus They were carried by the wild Black Rat.
Rattus Rattus is the black or ship rat (the rat whose fleas caused the plague), but the rats we have in this country, and what all fancy rats are descended from is Rattus norvegicus, which is the brown or Norway rat.
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(The fleas carried on) the Black Rat.
There are two species of fleas that are associated primarily with rats and mice: the northern rat flea (Nosopsyllus fasciatus), and the Oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis).It has been widely speculated that rats, carrying Oriental rat fleas infected with a bacteria called Yersinia pestis (which can infect humans with bubonic plague), were responsible for the Black Death plague epidemic.
The last rat-borne epidemic in the United States occurred in Los Angeles in 1924-25. Since then, all plague cases in this country have been sporadic, acquired from wild rodents or their fleas.
The main carriers of the bubonic plague were fleas and rats. The fleas got it from the rats when they bit them. When the rats died, the fleas went to new hosts, bit them, and gave them plague in the process. Usually the new host was another rat, because rats hang together, but sometimes there was no rat to go to, and the fleas went to whatever animal they found.
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.
Petstores sell anti flea sprays especially made for small animals.
The flea from a rat could give you the plague. There was recently a case of it in Oregon.
the fleas where the start whom travelled from china, they had a bacteria in them which the fleas where immune to this bacteria was called versinnia. when the fleas bit the rats (black rat's ) drink the blood they would vomit out that bacteria that the rat wasn't immune to... soon the rat would die. after the fleas wiped out all the black rats they had no food so they moved onto the the humans and animals! so technically it wasn't the fleas who caused the plague it was the bacteria versinnia