In the 1300's rats carrying deadly fleas on their tails behind their ears, and on their paws brought the black plague to Europe. Killing two thirds of the continent's population.True, but the chief reasons the plague became so devastatingly widespread were (1) it mutated into a pneumonic form and (2) ignorance of modern disease theory and its attendant cleanliness standards.
---Lowell
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