What really caused the bubonic plague?

Answer 1

Black Rats bite people and them giving them the plague.(1348-1350)

it was then that people realised that it was contageus and decided to cut communications with other civilisations and weakness

Answer 2

What caused the black death were the fleas on the rats. They sucked there blood then when the rat died they passed on to humans.The fleas would then pass on the deadly bactiria into humans causing the black death .

Answer 3

Black Plague or Bubonic Plague started in Europe around 1347. It was a terrible disease that was carried out with black rats and fleas. This terrible disease was affected the Medieval society. It was a terrible because so many peasants died and that nobody was left to farm the land and do the daily work.

The Plague (or called "Black Death") was an epidemic that struck Europe. People from China and Mongolia came with infected fleas carried by rats going aboard ships and that were transported to Italy, Greece and France; when the ships docked, the rats left the ships entering cities bringing the fleas and disease with them. In 1348 the virus, known as the Yersinia pestisbacterium and until 1351 the bacterium had killed 1/3 of Europe. Leaving fewer farmers and other people that held jobs that were important to the economy. The Europeans blamed the Jews for the plague by poisoning the water but it really was caused by flea bites. Other break outs occurred between 1451-1721.

Plague is still around today in small numbers and is treated with antibiotics.

Answer 4

Fleas from foreign ships coming over to Europe, rats were infested with these fleas which were carrying the germ that caused the black death. the fleas then went on to bite travellers , and travellers were there to trade, and while trading their goods, also passing over the disease.

Answer 5

Basically rodents had plague infested fleas that spread it to humans. Cramped dirty cities made it easy for it to spread. People did survive the plague, but if you were living in some disgusting hovel eating grain infested with rodent droppings your immune system is busy enough just fighting that.

One of the "cures" of the day was getting to the countryside and eating and sleeping well. Although im sure your immune system got a nice boost getting out of the filthy cities, what was really happening is they were getting away from the rodents. In the countryside the rodents had more natural enemies that kept them in check, and of course people were more spread out which had a natural quarantine effect.

Many people blamed witchcraft and feral cats here killed in the thousands. Without cats to hunt them, the rodent populations exploded. Of course that wasnt the cause, but it made a bad thing much worse.

BTW the plague is still around, small infections pop in every so often. India had an outbreak with a few hundred infections a decade or 2 ago, and I thought i remembered something about a case in the US in the last few years. I believe antibiotics cure any modern outbreak of it.

Answer 6

many believe that Plague was brought by Mongol armies. Also it came along the trade route.