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Why did the Black Death affect France and Italy the most (Europe 1357)

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Looting of these lost ships also helped spread the disease. ... From Italy the disease spread northwest across Europe, striking France, the Crown of Aragon, the Crown of Castile, Portugal and England by June 1348, then turned and spread east through Germany and Scandinavia from 1348 to 1350.
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Because the infected insects on the mice jump off the mice and would bite a human causing Black death aka plague.

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