explain plague and about rat flea

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Plague is an infectious disease that is caused by enterobacteria Yersinia pestis. It is one of the three epidemic disease that is reported by WHO.
Rat flea is a parasite of rodents and it is a primary vector for bubonic plague and murine typhus.

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