The Bubonic Plague 1

'Miasma' is another name for 'poisonous air'

• True

• False

• Maybe

• I like trains

The bite of a rat will normally give you the plague?

• True

• False

• Maybe

• Rats are my friends!

'Quarantine' comes from the Italian for thirty days

• True

• False

• Maybe

• Che Bella (how beautiful)

A flea bite will normally give you the plague?

• True

• False

• Potentially

• You're a flea!

The plague was spread by black and brown rats?

• True

• False

• Maybe

• Hey that's ratist towards dark colored rats!

The plague is carried in the stomach of infected fleas?

• True

• False

• Ew

• Get flea outta here

People lived in cramped, unhygienic conditions at the time?

• True

• False

• Maybe

• Everyone lived in Mansions due to their exceptional good looks

Yersinia Pestis is the name of the flea that carries the disease?

• True

• False

• Maybe

• I don't know, but that will be the name of my first born child

Physicians at the time believed that the Black Death was caused by unhygienic living conditions?

• True

• False

• Potentially

• Physicians at the time believed it was caused by your mum.(joke)

Quarantine means the isolation of people suspected of carrying a disease?

• True

• False

• Yeah could be...

• Quarantine is my middle name?