Specifically HOW did the Black Plague start?

Question

I appreciate all the answers to my previous question, but I'm still not sure how the black plague started. Idk, I personally find the question pretty vague, but I have to answer it somehow.

Does anyone have the slightest clue how it started?

Please try to list sources


Thanks in advance :)

Answer 1

Fleas from Asia. The fleas carried on to rats and also on men traveling from Asia to Europe. They carried them over from trade and gradually it began to grow.

Answer 2

It started in Egypt! Check out the site below. New evidence has been uncovered that leads some experts to believe that the plague's origins may come from Egypt. Eva Panagiotakopulu, who is an archaeologist and fossil-insect expert at the University of Sheffield, England, is the woman responsible for science's latest discovery. Eva has found archaeological evidence to back up the plague's possible origins in Egypt, and that evidence has recently just been published in the Journal of Biogeography. www.svms.santacruz.k12.ca.us/portalii/Plague.html - 5k -

Answer 3

Our best guess is that the illness originated on the Steppes as a mutant variety of an illness caused by a common blood-borne pathogen found amongst rodents that was spread from rat to rat by fleas. Rats being migratory critters under certain circumstance, they wandered into Eastern Europe and eventually turned up in port cities and towns, from whence they spread all over the world, with the exception of the North and South American continents. Fleas ain't exclusive to rats; they'll happily drink anybody's blood, and when they do, they spread that blood-borne disease. Because of the relatively primitive living conditions of the world's people at the time, rats and their fleas had no difficulty whatsoever getting into peoples houses and spreading the fleas.

Answer 4

it was the flees or the flys that were on the rats. It would not have been so bad had cats not been thought of as aids of the devil. But people were suspicious back then and killed all the cats so the rats multiplied. In London it stopped after The Fire of London.

Answer 5

The rat and flea stuff has been completely discredited, though people still trot it out as that's what they heard in school. Die ratios and examination of victims' bones both suggest it was a viral infection.

Answer 6

is this a homework assignment?

the plague spread because of how dirty things had been. people would use something like a bedpan to go to the bathroom then in the morning throw it in the streets. they didnt have anyway of getting rid of trash, so that went in the streets as well. once the rain came things would get washed down into the water supply that people drank.

because of all the trash and human feces, rats came. the rats got the plague first and would die, bringing in more rats. people would try and hide from the plague, either by locking them self in their homes or by fleeing. locking them self in their homes didnt work because it was poorly built homes with holes, allowing the rats to come and go as they pleased.

running away didnt work either because once you were exposed to it you would either be a carrier or die of it yourself. people would also put posies (ever hear the song ring around the rosy?, thats where that rhyme came from) into their pockets or breath the posies in hoping it would prevent the plague. of course it didnt.

Answer 7

Actually it's a bacterial infection, not viral. In other words, antibiotics will treat it, were it viral, they wouldn't,

Answer 8

what is it?