The bacteria that caused the Black Death and other pandemics of bubonic plague can be spread by fleas and human body lice. People can also catch pneumonic plague from other people the same ways people can transmit Covid-19. The Justinian plague and the Black Death were devastating to infected communities. Analysis of DNA from the teeth of neolithic farmers who lived around 5000 years ago has shown that the plague bacteria, Yersinia pestis, had been infecting people for millennia.Plague BiologyPa