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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.

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What rodent spread the Plague?

The black rat.


How did you get pneumonic plague from bubonic plague?

You got it through a rat flea that infected you.


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By getting bit by a black rat and by breathing


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What is or are the actual causes of the plague?

infested fleas in rats make it to humans after the host rat dies and infect them with the plague.


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.


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