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- What could have been a prevention at those times?
We are told that the Black Death, pandemic that ravaged Europe between 1347 and 1351 was caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis with rats as the main vehicle of transmission and transmitted to human by the bites of fleas. At those time there were no vaccines, of course. So, what would have been the best counter measures as **prevention of the disease** (NOT prevention of its spread or treatment)? I don't mean preventions as killing all rats, quarantine, etc. I mean what could have possibly avoided the the plague (at those times, not nowadays) to come into existence in the first place? What I find are only vague explanations such as that people of the Medieval Ages were uneducated about diseases and cleanliness. Can someone be more specific or eventually point to an article, link, paper that discusses this in more detail?