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Wait; what?
The story here at BBC:
'Gerbils replace rats' as main cause of Black Death
The story here at BBC:
'Gerbils replace rats' as main cause of Black Death
the rest at the link above---
It had been thought that black rats were responsible for allowing the plague to establish in Europe, with new outbreaks occurring when fleas jumped from infected rodents to humans.
However, Prof Stenseth and his colleagues do not think a rat reservoir was to blame....