In school you probably learned about the Black Death, a devastating pandemic that wreaked havoc and destruction throughout Europe in the 14th Century. The disease responsible for so many deaths was the Bubonic plague, caused by a blood-borne bacterium spread through fleas that lived on black rats in merchant ships.
Although the bacterium was the cause, and fleas were the real mechanism for the spread of the disease, rats were the means of transport that allowed the pandemic to sweep
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