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The flea associated with the Black Death is the Oriental rat flea.
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What are two types of plague?
One type is from a bite of a flea that carries the disease. The spot where the person is bitten turns black and forms a pustule. The other type was carried by the air and came from a cough of an infected person ( like the flu). The people who got the plague this way died faster than the people with the bite.
What type of microbe is black death?
A bacteria called Yersinia pestis which was carried by rats and the fleas that lived on them
What type of people caught the black death?
The Plague affected everyone from kings to paupers, but the incidence of it was proportionately higher among the poor, as they lived closer together, under less acceptable sanitation conditions, and with a much higher likeklyhood of rats in their vicinity. Rats carried the fleas that spread the plague. Beggars and noblemen both died of the Black Death, but a lot more beggars than noblemen.
How did you catch the black death?
You caught the black death when a plaged flea that had bitten a plaged rat reguritated the plague into your blood system before sucking your blood. Within four to five day a grown adult would be dead.
What where the black and white minstrel type chocolates called?
Vice versa
How did the black death stared?
It came on trading ships who carried rats that carried a flea with the disease. The flea bit someone, they got a black oozing pus filled boil at the site of the bite which spread to other parts of the body and they died. Another type of plague was passed from human to human through coughs and sneezing. The time of 1348-1350 were very dirty and helped spread the disease because of the poor cleaning and hygiene, but rats loved it.
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 are two types of plague?
One type is from a bite of a flea that carries the disease. The spot where the person is bitten turns black and forms a pustule. The other type was carried by the air and came from a cough of an infected person ( like the flu). The people who got the plague this way died faster than the people with the bite.
What is the ''black plague''?
The Black Plague is a disease that spread throughout Europe and Asia. It was carried to Europe on Asian merchants' ships which had black rats which carried fleas which carried a type of bacteria. It killed about a third of the people in Europe.
What type of microbe is black death?
A bacteria called Yersinia pestis which was carried by rats and the fleas that lived on them
Why was the bubonic plague known as black death?
Type your answer here... the person went black
What type of bacteria does the bubonic plague belong to?
the black death
What type of feeder is the flea?
self
What type of consumer is a flea?
parasite
Is there a type of flea with wings?
YES
What does flee and flea have in common?
Flee means to escape or run away. Flea is a type of insect.
Was the black death a type of blood poisoning?
no it was a type of flu panedemics that spreaded by black rats check this website for it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death
