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CanadianAlerts t1_j52ornp wrote

Actually, my history teacher just taught us this yesterday (Eastern Timezone, to clarify).

The PowerPoint he had mentioned that it accordingly was fleas that dragged off of rats but it doesn't seem right to me. It even mentioned that it apparently still exists but it's so minor.

Seeing the PowerPoint he had - there was a photo of a guy's hand just completely turning black. If that is how it actually works it reminded me of a Russian Drug known as "Krokodril" (or something along that) which turns your skin into a Crocodile-like skin.

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Rear-gunner OP t1_j52v7hz wrote

What happened is that rats get infected by fleas. The fleas like the rats so they live in harmony. However if the rat population goes down, the fleas look for another host - a person, so the plague explodes.

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CanadianAlerts t1_j52yve5 wrote

So it was correct. Okay. Good.

I know that I shouldn't be judging a man who took this stuff in university, but I just needed to double check. Usually Reddit is correct, right?

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