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2. The plague, fevers, tularemia: The diseases fleas can carry ...

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   Fleas can spread other diseases too Other flea-borne bacterial diseases may cause fever, body aches, nausea/vomiting, cough, rash, swollen lymph nodes, skin lesions/rashes, and/or other symptoms ...

3. Bubonic plague - Wikipedia

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   Acral necrosis, the dark discoloration of skin, is another symptom. Occasionally, swollen lymph nodes, known as "buboes", may break open. [1] The three types of plague are the result of the route of infection: bubonic plague, septicemic plague, and pneumonic plague. [1] Bubonic plague is mainly spread by infected fleas from small animals. [1]

4. Here's Everything You Need to Do to Get Rid of Fleas in ... - AOL

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   How to get rid of fleas in the yard. In order to prevent fleas from traveling indoors on pets, it’s best to regularly treat your yard with an insect control product designed to eliminate fleas.

5. Human flea - Wikipedia

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   Fleas are a pest species to their hosts, causing an itching sensation that results in discomfort and leads to scratching in the vicinity of the bite. Flea bites generally cause the skin to raise, swell, and itch. The bite site has a single puncture point in the center.

6. Flea treatments - Wikipedia

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   Fleas can be drowned by immersion for about 24 hours; they may appear to be dead if immersed for shorter times, but can revive after some hours. [11] Soaps and surfactants can facilitate the death of fleas in bathing. The process of washing the flea (and the pet) removes integumental waxes on the flea's body and it dies from dehydration. [12 ...

7. Blood-sucking body lice may have spread plague more than ...

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   It turned out that human fleas weren’t good at spreading the bacteria. ... Once infected, the lice were placed on another bit of artificial skin and allowed to suck sterile blood through it ...

8. Flea - Wikipedia

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   Fleas are wingless insects, 1.5 to 3.3 millimetres (1 ⁄ 16 to 1 ⁄ 8 inch) long, that are agile, usually dark colored (for example, the reddish-brown of the cat flea), with a proboscis, or stylet, adapted to feeding by piercing the skin and sucking their host's blood through their epipharynx. Flea legs end in strong claws that are adapted to ...

9. Tunga penetrans - Wikipedia

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   By stage 2 (days 1–2), penetration is complete and the flea has burrowed most of its body into the skin. Only the anus, the copulatory organs, and four rear air holes in fleas called stigmata remain on the outside of the epidermis. The anus will excrete feces that is thought to attract male fleas for mating, described in a later section.