Did the rats play a role in the black death?

Answer 1

Yes they did because they were the first things to get 'The Black Death' and their bodys could not handle the symptoms of 'The Black Death'. So as the days passed by the rats slowly died and the humans usally caught the disease because the rats would live in there house and usally get everywhere back in the 'Medievil' times because it wasn't clean.

Answer 2

Fleas latched on to black rats. When the ships carrying the rats stopped at Europe, the rats spilled out and the fleas jumped into people's clothing, skin, and hair. These fleas, infected, soon bit the people, therefore spreading a disease that caused bumps in the armpits and genitals. The person would then get a high fever and die.

After a while they decided that if you had the black plague, you had to stay inside. Because if you went outside, you spread the disease. Therefore, people with the black plague were willed to die.

Its a good thing we get vaccinations today, right?

Yeh lol xD

Answer 3

The rats started out with the disease (not sure where from) and the fleas sucked the blood out of the rats giving them the disease so then the fleas passed it on to other things.So where the rats got it from is hard to know but soon as i find out i will post again

Answer 4

A specific species of rat, called the black rat, is the usual host of a specific species of flea, called the oriental rat flea. Both existed in large numbers in Europe of the Middle Ages, and both can be infected by the Bubonic Plague.

When the flea bits an infected rat, the bubonic plague bacteria multiply in its stomach, making it sick. When the rat dies, the flea leaves it, looking for another host. It is looking for another black rat, but anything warm blooded that happens to be around will do in a pinch, so it will bite a human or other animal, if it needs to. When the sick flea bits, it gets some of the bacteria from its stomach into the blood of its victim, making the animal or person it bites come down with the plague.

The black rats were nearly wiped out in Europe during the plague, and since they and their fleas were the primary vectors, the plague came to an end. Increases in the black rat population allowed the plague to return from time to time in different places.

Answer 5

the rats came from ships and sailed over to England and the fleas on the rats killed mostly everyone in Britain and over countries.

Answer 6

black death was spread by black rats. They were hosts of black death.