If you mean the disease carried by fleas on rats called the Black Death or the Great Plague, it had affected the world several times. The most often one that was reported on was in Europe around the mid 1400"s.
The black rat.
You got it through a rat flea that infected you.
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.
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yes, it was the flea wich fed on the rat
The original carrier for the plague-infected fleas thought to be responsible for the Black Death was the black rat, and it has been hypothesized that the displacement of black rats by brown rats led to the decline of bubonic plague. This theory has, however, been deprecated, as the dates of these displacements do not match the increases and decreases in plague outbreaks. ~ From Wikipedia ('Brown Rat')
By getting bit by a black rat and by breathing
(The fleas carried on) the Black Rat.
infested fleas in rats make it to humans after the host rat dies and infect them with 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.
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.
The animal that started the plague first was the rat. They had parasites in their skin and spread it to humans