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The Black Rat Epidemic

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The Black Rat, known as the Ship Rat, has been a species leading to some of the globe’s most problematic issues. Not only by spreading diseases but by eating seeds that most farmers depend on to continue the practice of agriculture and provide the general population with natural food sources.

The epidemic of the black plague or what is known to many as the Black Death, first began in 1346 and spread across Europe for another seven years taking the lives of roughly 75 to 200 million people. Theorized to have originated and begun in central Asia, spread and traveled through trade routes between the two continents into Europe. Trade routes known as the Silk Roads, or the Silk Routes were the main gates through which goods and resources were
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