Yersinia pestis.
it wasnt a flea that started the black death it started from a ratANSWER:The pathogen that caused the Black Death is called Yersennia pestis. It is carried by fleas that live on rats and other rodents.
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Another name for the plague is the black death
There is not a 100% agreement on what pathogen (or combination of pathogens) caused the black death, but the dominant opinion is that it was caused by a strain of the Y. Pestis bacteria, which in its modern forms can cause pneumonic, septicemic, and bubonic plague.
The common name for bubonic plague is the Black Death.
Yersinia pestis is the name of the germ that caused the black death.
The black death is also known as 'The Black Plague' but the scientific name for it is the bubonic plague.
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Mycobacteria.
They are called "bacterial pathogens".