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The bacteria that causes the bubonic plague is carried by______ Fleas bite rats

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bacteria

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cuz

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Xenopsylla cheopis (the rat flea)

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Bubonic plague is mainly spread by infected fleas from small animals namely, rats. It is a result of exposure to the body fluids from a dead plague-infected animal. In the bubonic form of plague, the bacteria enter through the skin from a flea bite and travel through the pymphatic system in humans

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