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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.

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How did people become infected with the plague?

Bubonic Plague was spread by being bitten by fleas that had bitten infected rats.


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From fleas from infected rats.


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Fleas on rats and people who were already infected.


What is a disease caused by infected fleas in rars?

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Can infected fleas with plague transmit it to horses?

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How do Ebloa and flu and malaria and the plague spread?

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What causes bubonic plague or black death?

The fleas infected the rats who spread the disease through the town causing the citizens to get it.


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.


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.