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The bubonic plague was carried by?
The carrier of this plague is the rats the carrier of the plague is actually fleas and ticks because they bite the rats and give them the plague. So the carriers of the plague are most rodents, ticks, and fleas.
What animal carries the plague?
The plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which is carried by fleas, which were carried by rats.
How do you know rats had the plague?
rats carried flea's. the flea's carried the plague the people got the plague from the flea's but blamed the rats.
What is the illness carried by rats?
Plague
How come fleas and rats don't get plague when it's on them?
Fleas carried the plague because they carried bacterium through their bites and the bacterium carried the plague, and rats did not get it because the fleas landed on rats and then jumped to other animals and possibly humans.
Why did the black rats start the great plague?
The rats carried fleas that actually caused the plague. The rats were carried throughout Europe on ships carrying trade goods.
Do domestic rats carry plague?
No, rats never carried plague. It was the fleas that they carried. Domesticated rats don't have fleas. Even wild rats are very clean and any fleas they do have don't carry plague much anymore.
What transmitted the plague to humans?
The plague was carried by rats, who were infested by fleas. As the rats succumbed to the plague, the starving fleas fed on humans infecting them with the plague.
Where did the rats get the black plague from?
they were the ones that carried the fleas that had the germ which caused the black plague
How did the rats Catch the plague were they born with it include where you got your research?
The rats didnt actually get it, it was the fleas which were on the rats and the fleas carried the disease. It was just the rats that carried the flees.
Rats and the plague?
Many believe that rats carried the black plague when in fact it was the flea the rat carried that actually carried the plague that is how people still got sick locked in a room with no windows is because they would get bit by the fleas (one of the reasons anyways)
Who carried the black death to Europe?
No one did it was rats that carried black death (plague)
