Thread:Ralok/@comment-8944282-20130602051419/@comment-9331905-20130604103856

8-Bit Jack wrote: '''rat bites didnt spread the plague, FLEA bites did. Black death is a blood disease.'''

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the symptoms are as follows: uncontrolled blood clots in the skin causing tissue death, uncontrolled bleeding (the body's clotting resources having been depleted) in the organs and skin, violent vomiting of blood, fever, and severe pain. It presents with sores and spots, and is almost 100% fatal unless treated early with the proper medicine, which then successfully cures up to 96% of cases.

'''It is spread to rats through fleas... and to humans through rat bites.''' the septicemic and the bubonic are from the same bacteria, they just have different symptoms. so the plague is definitely spread by rat bites. Ralok is right.

but back to dishonored universe, rat bites spread them here, too. (SOURCE )

I never said, the mites don't spread the plague, but they are not that important, because Burrows imported the rats to Dunwall, because the mites weren't discovered at this point. at least both mites and rats spread it.