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Rat flea that caused the Black Plague ( 1347 to 1352): Xenopsylla cheopis This disease killed a third of the population of 14th century Europe, and just as many, if not more, rats.

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Q: What is the name of the flea that began the Black death plague?
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What black death plague have to d with shakespeare?

the black Death had nothing to do with Shakespeare,the plague was caused by the Flea off the rat.


What was the plague that caused death bite from a flea?

Black death was spread by flea bites. Flea bites transferred Yersinia pestis bacterium.


What spread this plague?

The black death was spread by the oriental rat flea, who got it from sucking the blood of black rats.


How was the black death transmitted to humans in 2 ways?

The black death was transmitted in two ways, one by a flea that carried the bacteria in a saliva and the flea bit someone. The second way is called pneumonic plague. In this case, the bacteria travel to the lungs and one a person coughs another person can get the plague.


What type of flea carried the Black Death?

The flea associated with the Black Death is the Oriental rat flea. There is a link below to an article on this flea.


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 contributed most to turning the plague into a deadly outbreak?

The oriental rat flea spread the black plague from Asia into Europe.


How was the flea get in contact with the black death bacteria?

The flea was a parasite on a black rat which carried the disease


Did the rats in the black death bite people?

Some likely did, but it was more likely that one would be bitten by a plague carrying flea that came off a dead rat.


What common aliment is the black death like until day 3?

3-7 days after the flea bite transmitting bubonic plague, flu-like symptoms occur.


How was the bubonic plague transported?

By a Flea. They got to the rats first then when the rats died the fleas came for humans causing the Black or the Bubonic Plague


What 2 plagues combined to make black plague?

Er... I don't think two plagues combined to make the black death, but there were two ways the black death killed. 1. A flea bit you - the bubonic plague. After growing buboes, coughing blood and getting fevers, bleeding under the skin, which looks like severe bruising, appears. This is what gives the Black Death its name. 2. You are talking to a victim and they sneeze. If they don't catch it, you are infected. If they do catch it, you might not be infected, but if they catch with their hand, then touch you, you will be infected. The pneumonic plague.