Take bubonic plague for example. The disease is most commonly transmitted to humans through flea bites, and the fleas live on rodents.

以黑死病为例。这种疾病最常通过跳蚤叮咬传染给人类，跳蚤生存在啮齿类动物上。

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In 1616-1619 an epidemic, possibly of bubonic or pneumonic plague, swept coastal New England, killing as many as nine out of ten.

1616-1619年，一场可能是淋巴腺鼠疫或肺鼠疫的流行病席卷了新英格兰沿海地区，十人中有九人因此死亡。

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The bubonic plague. Scarlet fever. Polio. Diseases of the past, and no longer on this Earth, right?

黑死病、猩红热和小儿麻痹症，以往的这些疾病，现在已经从地球上绝迹了吗？

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In the fourteenth century, ships that arrived in Venice,Italy, from areas infected with bubonic plague had to stay outside port for forty days.

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In 14th century Europe, the bubonic plague temporarily boosted wages and reduced agricultural rents.

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Without a groundswell of rodents, fears of bubonic plague should be set aside, or never feared at all.

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He made his first investment, in a theater company, just after bubonic plague had wiped out much of the competition.

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