The microbe responsible for the deadly disease of Black Death was a________

bacterium

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The correct option is A bacterium
Black Death was the most disastrous disease in the human history. 70- 200 million people were killed in Europe and Asia. The microbe that was responsible for this deadly disease was a bacterium Yersinia pestis. It caused many types of plague including bubonic plague.

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