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Did water contamination help the Black Plague to spread?

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Plague is transmitted by infected fleas that bite you and by very close contact with an infected person, coughing on you for example. The bacterium that causes plague cannot survive in water. read more

From Central Asia, the disease moved along an established trade route, passing through Turkestan and the Black Sea Region (Crimea and the Byzantine Empire). In 1347, Kaffa, a town in modern-day Ukraine that was a Genoese trading post, came under attack by a Tartar army. read more

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