Please Select the False Statement Regarding Plague and Its Transmission

Multiple Choice

Please select the False statement regarding plague and its transmission.

A) Plague is caused by a Gram-negative organism and is thus completely untreatable with antibiotics.
B) Yersinia pestis is a Gram-negative organism and thus possess an outer lipopolysaccharide layer.
C) People can contract plague when they are bitten by fleas from rodents infected with the causative organism.
D) Y. pestis is typically transmitted by the bites of infected fleas, an example of biological transmission.
E) The incidence of vector-borne diseases such as plague can be decreased by controlling the vector or the infected hosts.