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The rats and fleas carried the black death
** Correction... Rat fleas carried the Bubonic Plague. There is still speculation as to whether the black death was actually bubonic plague as there are very many differences between the pandemics. One theory is that the black death was actually Ebola.
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How was the plage started?
it started by a bunch of fleas they got on the rats then rat got in the boats of European and those spread the disease
What animal spread the plague?
(The fleas carried on) the Black Rat.
How was the plage spread?
the plage was spread throughout animals, which carried fleas, and fleas carried the disease. china did not carry the disease, because they had boiling water.
How did the black death get from Asia to Europe?
The Black Death was spread by rats and the fleas they carried. The disease spread slowly across Asia as it moved through the rat population. Rats travelled on ships, which crossed the Mediterranean, and the rats got into various port cities, spreading the disease. The Black Death can be spread from person to person, but the spread is much slower and ends, in the absence of the rats and fleas.
How do modern scientists think the disease was spread?
They thought that rodents start the disease, because they can move and spread fleas.
Which famous historical disease did fleas help to spread?
The Bubonic Plague.
What insect did the black death use to spread the contagious disease?
It was spread by fleas carried by Black rats.
How did mice spread disease in the middle ages?
they carried fleas that carried the disease and when they bit they infected their victim
What is the black death?
The Black Death was an epidemic which ravaged Europe between 1347 and 1400. It was a disease spread through contact with animals (zoonosis), basically through fleas and other rat parasites (at that time, rats often coexisted with humans, thus allowing the disease to spread so quickly).
What animal was credited with helping spread the plague?
It was the fleas carried by Black Rats from Central Asia, that was thought to have brought the Bubonic Plague 'Black Death' to Europe.
Who started the bubonic plague?
Rats and fleas carried the disease and spread it to the people of Europe.
What sourt of people might have helped to spread the black death?
It was not so much people that spread the disease as fleas from rats.
