Researchers have theorized that fleas spread the disease throughout Egypt by accompanying Nile rats, after which they changed hosts to black rats and with them embarked on ships. On their voyage ...

Researchers thought the bacterium would infect fleas on rats, and when the rats died, the fleas would jump to humans, infecting them. Rats are also thought to be responsible for spreading more recent ...

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But people assumed the rats caught the disease from humans. In 1897, Japanese physician Masanori Ogata wrote "one should pay attention to insects like fleas for, as the rat becomes cold after ...