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I'm assuming you're talking about the Black Plague in Europe during the Dark Ages. First of all, the people in Europe had very poor hygiene: they might bathe individually once a year, if at all. So they carried lice and fleas. They also had dogs and livestock living inside during the cold winters, to increase the warmth, and these carried lice and fleas. At this time, they didn't have ways to preserve their food, other than with salting it, so they had very low quality nutrition (which had bugs and worms in it). They also didn't have any sanitation, so they just tossed their garbage, trash, dead bodies and toilet wastes out of the house into the street which attracted more rats and other animals. Anyway, these so-called Christians (I'm not using the name 'Christian to be critical, but these persons considered themselves servants of the Clergy at that time) were superstitious about cats, believing that cats were messenger of witches and servants of the Devil. So, the Plague was carried by fleas that lived mainly on the rats, then onto filthy, overcrowded, diseased, undernourished people, who tried to kill all of the very cats who could have gotten rid of the rats.
Rats and unsanitary living conditions were the primary reasons
There were outbreaks of Plague throughout the Middle Ages, due to the unsanitary conditions of the time (open sewers were common). It was borne by fleas which spread via the rats. Rats were often aboard ships of cargo to other countries, and the plague spread to other countries via the rats. In turn, fleas which carried the disease jumped onto people, infecting them.
In the case of the 1665 plague, this particular outbreak originated in Holland. King Charles II had already stopped trade with Holland in 1663 in order to minimise the chance of it spreading to England, but, within two years, the plague arrived on the streets of the poorer areas of London.
The Great Fire of London which occurred in 1666 was a blessing in disguise. It wiped out the rats, the fleas and hence, the disease.
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