SC - Viking and early Irish foods

[Alderton, Philippa]

Sorry about being technical, but the rat is not the vector. The oriental
rat flea (xenopsylla cheopis) is the vector, and the disease comes from
the bacterium (Yersinia pestis) that is injected via the salivary glands
of said flea.  The rat is a reservoir host for the disease, and humans are
merely an accidental host.

On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Decker, Terry D. wrote:
> > 
> You also have been having bumper crops of indigenous rodents, which are the
> vector.  The endemic plague in the U.S. is a non-pnuemonic form which
> entered the country from Asia in the first part of this century.  It spread
> from the rat population to other flea carrying rodents and has been slowly
> working its way east.  A few years ago we had a case out in the Oklahoma
> Panhandle and nothing since.
> 
> Bear
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