Sentences with phrase «bubonic rats»

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Most are bubonic plague, transmitted from rats to humans by the bite of a flea.

This poor island nation is regularly hit by plague outbreaks, but they are typically the relatively less dangerous bubonic form, transmitted from rats to humans by fleas, and occur largely in remote areas.

Among them: 500 - plus Oriental rat fleas, notorious for their role in transmitting the bubonic plague, also known as the Black Death.

For the past hundreds of years, flea - infested and dirty rats have taken the blame for the spread of the bubonic place throughout medieval Europe, which killed millions of people.

During this time the bubonic plague was also of great concern killing millions world wide as it was often spread by rats harboring fleas that carried the infection.

The most famous historical example of disease was the Bubonic plague of the Middle Ages, which was spread from the fleas of infected rats.

The rat flea, Xenopsylla cheopis, is the vector most commonly credited with spreading bubonic plague.

# 88 — That rats can carry fleas transmitting bubonic plague applies only to those rats they tested for infected fleas, and does not apply to the rats they did not test.