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Where did the fleas that caused the black death come from?

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Rattus rattus They were carried by the wild Black Rat.

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What animal did the black death come from?

It was a disease passed on by contact with people who were infected & fleas, EVERYONE could get it.


What did black death come from?

Infected fleas in cloth from Italy, where the disease originated, was carried to England via trades ships and then it spread.............


Where did the plague come from before it reached Europe?

The black death began to spread in about 1437 during the Middle Ages from fleas that bit mice and rats that were infected with a the black death. The fleas would swell from the infected blood they took in and vomit it out. Fleas love to bite humans bite humans any chance they get. Infected fleas bit any human they could find spreading the black death.


What did philosophers believe caused the bubonic plague?

what caused the black death was rats from china cause when people from china would come over to Europe to deliver things they have made for the europeans and the rats came on the ship with these fleas on them and the fleas carried the bubonic plague witch got into the rats so when the people from china came over with this disease all the rats came out of the ship and the Chinese people died on the ship with the disease it caused the bubonic plague to happen witch it did so that's what happened.


Who was blame for the black death and why?

No, that understanding did not come until the 20th Century.


Did the Black Death come to Canada?

No it did not come into Canada, as Canada was not discovered by Europeans yet. However, the Black death usually refers to Bubonic Plague so if you are talking about modern times the Black death did come to Canada. However, most would agree, the Black Death did not come to Canada


When did the black death come to the UK?

1665


What year did the Black death come to England?

1348


Did the black death come from rats?

yes, it certainly did. In Mongol army camps rats died and spread Black Death.


Do fleas come up a bathtub drain?

can fleas climb up drains


Why did the black death come back?

Because labs are careless.


How the black death happened?

The black death was the bubonic plague. They had a nasty bacterial infection that could be easily cured today with a bit of penicillin. Unfortunately it wouldn't be invented for hundreds of years; A third of the population of Europe died.