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What black death plague have to d with shakespeare?
the black Death had nothing to do with Shakespeare,the plague was caused by the Flea off the rat.
Who contributed most to turning the plague into a deadly outbreak?
The oriental rat flea spread the black plague from Asia into Europe.
What spread this plague?
The black death was spread by the oriental rat flea, who got it from sucking the blood of black rats.
How did brown rats end the plague?
The Asiatic brown rats were a species of rat that were very different than the plague caring black rats. The black rats were very susceptible to a type of flea that carried the plague well and was attracted to biting human. The Asiatic brown rat housed a different type of flea that carried the plague poorly and didn't bite humans. The brown rat beat out the black rats and became the dominant rat in Europe.
What is the name of the flea that began the Black death plague?
Rat flea that caused the Black Plague ( 1347 to 1352): Xenopsylla cheopis This disease killed a third of the population of 14th century Europe, and just as many, if not more, rats.
How di dthe black plague affect the people?
It gave them black and blue spots with puss in then and you were violently sick with armpits as big as an apples. It occurred from a flea that jumped on a rat and killed the rat and jumped on a human and bit them and gave them the plague.
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 were the fleas on a rat called?
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.
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.
If a rat eats a thing and then if you eat that thing does it causes plague?
NO,Not unless the rat is infected by the plague flea.The infected flea causes the rat to get infected,All rats are not infected carriers,but caution is neccessary.
How was the flea get in contact with the black death bacteria?
The flea was a parasite on a black rat which carried the disease
