What caused the Black Death?
A) Fleas that were biting the skin of rats and regurgitating the bite spread the plague.
B) A population already weakened by malnutrition was susceptible to the disease that spread from the Gobi desert westward via Genoese merchant vessel in 1347.
C) An infected person would not die for three days, giving them time to spread the disease to others.
D) An 83 percent mortality rate allowed the disease to be spread by large numbers of people.
E) All of these
E
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