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It was awful!

The lack of sanitation played perhaps the largest role in the spreading and contracting of disease. Cities, towns, and villages were generally cesspools - open sewers in the streets (which served also as communal garbage cans) harbored viruses, disease and germs.

It was also a breeding ground for varmin such as rats, lice, and fleas, that bred in the dregs of these sordid areas. They contracted illnesses such as the Black Death and spread it to humans by bites.

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