[E Rocc]

Actually the plague was supposedly passed not by rats directly, but the fleas the rats had.

Back then, people often had fleas too.

-Eric

[blam]

"Back then, people often had fleas too."

Yup. Mostly they did. I've read that the highly populated cities were hit harder than the isolated areas in the countryside. Most of the 'learned' people in the cities would have died and we would have started back again with mainly the country bumpkins, er?

[EBUCK]

Carried by the Oriental Rat Flea to be exact.

I couldn't find anything on exhumation/harvesting evidence. Oh, well.

EBUCK