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Rear-gunner OP t1_j52v7hz wrote

Reply to comment by CanadianAlerts in The Black Death may not have been spread by rats after all by Rear-gunner

What happened is that rats get infected by fleas. The fleas like the rats so they live in harmony. However if the rat population goes down, the fleas look for another host - a person, so the plague explodes.

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CanadianAlerts t1_j52yve5 wrote

So it was correct. Okay. Good.

I know that I shouldn't be judging a man who took this stuff in university, but I just needed to double check. Usually Reddit is correct, right?

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