The cause of the black plague was the blocked flea. This flea would regurgitate the plague into the victims blood stream whilst feeding on them. The fleas had to run off the rat onto a human. The victim would start getting headaches, then chills and fever which made the victim exhausted. The victim might vomit and get soreness in their limbs.
Yersinia Pestis was the microbe responsible for Bubonic Plague.
The bubonic plague.
No, malaria is amosquito-bourne disease and the Plague was carried by rats. They are caused by different microbes too. Although both diseases were spread by insects (fleas for the Plague and mosquito for Malaria.
With the discovery of cells and microbes hundreds of years later, the plague was discovered for what it truly was, shortly afterward scientists discovered the origins of the plague (the fleas and rats) and were then equipped with the knowledge to fight the plague.
the black death
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Another name for the plague is the black death
Black plague
the black plague
The Black Plague is a infectious disease.
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.
That fateful year saw the world's population enduring what is believed to be a recurrence of the bubonic plague, also known as the Black Death or the Black Plague. It is further widely believed that the Black Death was responsible for the deaths of 38,000 Londoners that year.