The plague rarely affects humans, though the US sees about 7 cases a year. Here’s why [Video]

In the 14th century, the bubonic plague swept through the Middle East Asia and Europe. In Europe, it wiped out as many as 50 million people or more than half the continent. Today, we’re going to examine what European hygiene was like during the black plague. Ok. Grab your lua. We’re off to Europe in the 13 hundreds. If you were *** flea rat or louse the 14th century was *** good time to be alive because you were thriving in filth. Plus you had *** steady job spreading disease. *** flea would bite *** rat that was infected with the plague and when the flea was hungry for its next meal, it would jump on to *** human and bite them. Transmitting disease from rat to human. Doctors of the era never identified fleas as *** vector for the plague. So people continued to sleep on straw bedding. That …