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Bubonic Plague
This is an interesting story. Maybe there is some truth to Cats killing us off and taking over the planet.
The poor little kitty didn't survive.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.the cat and dog flea is ctenophalides, and doesn't usually 'do' plague
The black rat ( rattus rattus) flea ( xenopsylla cheopsis), does, and MUST have rat blood to complete its cycle...as we all learn at school, the black rat was displaced by Norwegian rat - and curtains to Plague
the child was unlucky.
PP - I read in another version of the same story that the cat was a ratter and had picked on the wrong rat and had been bitten.
The wound then got septic and pus-filled and the plague then got transferred to the human via the pus.
I don't suppose all wild rats would be carrying the same germs. I know they carry Leptospirosis and this is caught by humans.
Can you imagine the man going to the doctor after becoming ill - I wouldn't think that Bubonic Plague would be the doctor's first diagnosis. I would doubt that there would be half a dozen confirmed cases per year.