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<span>He states that it was caused by rats.
He states that it caused reckless behavior.
He states that it spread from the Middle East. He states that people did not avoid the sick. </span> The correct answer is <span>He states that it spread from the Middle East</span>
In his excerpt The Decameron, Boccaccio affirms that the plague which spread widely from one location to another, came from the Middle East. Boccaccio refers to a “deadly pestilence which had its origins some years before in the East and that had propagated itself without respite from place to place and into the West in a calamitous way”
In New York, it was "Ellis Island" were immigrants were processed into this country, since many immigrants arrived with very little background information, and had to be "sorted".