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imgabe on March 18, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: How rats became an inescapable part of city living

The "common knowledge" is that rats (or their fleas) transmitted the plague. New research suggests this might not be the case.

joecool1029 on March 18, 2019 [–]

Here is a link to that research: http://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1715640115

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