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What started the black plague?

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the rats hitch hiked onto a ship that had fleas. the fleas were infected with the black plague. the fleas bit the rats and then the rats got off the ship and infested in small villages. the villages were filled with dirty ppl and the ppl were bitten by fleas and the ppl went all over the country and this caused the spread of the black plague.

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