Fleas and lice from humans, rather than rats, were likely responsible for spreading the Black Plague
It’s wasn’t rodents, but human endoparasites like fleas and lice that seem to be like the most likely carriers of the ‘Black Plague’, the horrible disease that decimated Europe throughout history. Rats (Rattus Rattus) may have been wrongly accused of committing one of the biggest mass murders in history. Credit: Pixabay. In October 1347, 12 Genovese…
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