Assertion: plague | /r/HasProperty | spread
Facets:
value: by touching infected animals
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Plague can also be spread by touching infected animals.
text: Combining information on the biology of Rattus rattus, Rattus norvegicus, and the common fleas Xenopsylla cheopis and Pulex irritans with modern studies of plague epidemiology, particularly in India, where the R. rattus is a native species and conditions are nearly ideal for plague to be spread, Twigg concludes that it would have been nearly impossible for Yersinia pestis to have been the causative agent of the plague, let alone its explosive spread across Europe.