Assertion: plague | /r/HasProperty | regarded by many locals
Facets:
value: as a disease of rats
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Yersin also noted that rats were affected by plague not only during plague epidemics, but also often preceding such epidemics in humans and that plague was regarded by many locals as a disease of rats; villagers in China and India asserted that when large numbers of rats were found dead, plague outbreaks soon followed.[citation needed]