Long thought to have been responsible for the Black Death in Medieval Times, the Brown Rat spread from Asia about this time. But it was the fleas

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Long thought to have been responsible for the Black Death in Medieval Times, the Brown Rat spread from Asia about this time. But it was the fleas the rats carry that transmitted the pathogen.

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