Another rat based ask. i can't remember where i heard this it may have been WIKI but ill check.
2007-05-12 23:09:44 · 4 answers · asked by ratleyrat 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
What plague are you talking about. The black plague in 1665 was spread by fleas that were carried by rats and then bit people and moved on
2007-05-12 23:16:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Another rat based ask?" What does that mean?
Rats played a role, but so did fleas and men. Although rats may have preferred their foul little lairs, their fleas were much more upwardly mobile, infecting rat and man alike.
Also, keep in mind that if the 17th century plague was pulmonary,i.e., based in the lungs, merely breathing the air around a plague victim was enough to infect someone.
Fleas were the carrier or "vector". Rats and mankind were also vectors, but to a lesser extent. Mankind was an accelerent of the plague, which thrived if man's environment then.
2007-05-12 23:46:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suppose the contamination was very quick betwwen humans due to the fact that the flees propagated quickly fromman to man.
I have heard that the flees migated frm rat to men when enough rats were dead. You know, plague also killed the rats. The flees prefer rats to human (the fur of rat is hotter but when there were too few rates the flees with microbes jumped to humans
2007-05-12 23:16:22 · answer #3 · answered by maussy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because the river water that the people used for toilets and then drank, traveled faster than rats.
2007-05-12 23:21:51 · answer #4 · answered by liberty11235 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋