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Bubonic Plague was spread by being bitten by fleas that had bitten infected rats.
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.
You got it through a rat flea that infected you.
From fleas from infected rats.
Black Death was a Plague. Humans, animal especially rats could get infected.
Infected sailors traveled from one country to another carrying the disease.
Because they weren't in contact with other people who had the Black Plague, so they weren't infected.
the plague originated in Africa and was brought to Europe by ship rats infected with it. The fleas thrived among the rats who lived in dirty areas very close to each other. the fleas drank the infected rats blood and the bit humans with their jaws that were covered in the infected rat blood.
To acquire a disease is to become "infected" with it or by it.
the bubonic plague, spread by rats bitten bye infected fleas
One gets plague when he/she is bitten by infected rats or fleas.You got it through a flea that has bitten a rat whos blood is infected with many bad bacteria, like yersinia pestis.
Melcombe Regis is one of the first entry points into England for the Black Death plague in 1348. Military, infected by the fleas of black rats, who were returning from the Hundred Year's war arrived at this seaport among others.