All of the following are true of the bubonic plague EXCEPT:
A. It was transmitted along trade routes.
B. It was known as the Black Death.
C. It was transmitted by rat- or human-borne fleas.
D. It spread rapidly once it arrived in Europe.
E. It struck only children and the elderly.
E
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a. Venice b. Paris c. Rome d. Byzantium e. London
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