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.
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.
Rats were the vector of the bubonic plague
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.
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.
Beacause rats have fleas.
fleas on rats
The plague was spread by fleas that lived on the rats.
fleas on that live rats its not the fleas it was the blueberries
From fleas from infected rats.
Plague vaccine or avoid rats with fleas.
the causes of the plague was the fleas on the rats they bit the rats and then when the rats died they moved on to bite the humans
The plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which is carried by fleas, which were carried by rats.