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2. Flea - Wikipedia

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   Fleas are vectors for viral, bacterial and rickettsial diseases of humans and other animals, as well as of protozoan and helminth parasites. [35] Bacterial diseases carried by fleas include murine or endemic typhus [34]: 124 and bubonic plague. [36] Fleas can transmit Rickettsia typhi, Rickettsia felis, Bartonella henselae, and the myxomatosis ...

3. 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 ...

4. Yersinia pestis - Wikipedia

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   It causes the disease plague, which caused the Plague of Justinian and the Black Death, the deadliest pandemic in recorded history. Plague takes three main forms: pneumonic, septicemic, and bubonic. Yersinia pestis is a parasite of its host, the rat flea, which is also a parasite of rats, hence Y. pestis is a hyperparasite.

5. Typhus - Wikipedia

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   The diseases are caused by specific types of bacterial infection. [1] Epidemic typhus is caused by Rickettsia prowazekii spread by body lice, scrub typhus is caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi spread by chiggers, and murine typhus is caused by Rickettsia typhi spread by fleas. [1] Vaccines have been developed, but none are commercially available.

6. Bubonic plague - Wikipedia

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   Bubonic plague. Bubonic plague is one of three types of plague caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. [1] One to seven days after exposure to the bacteria, flu-like symptoms develop. [1] These symptoms include fever, headaches, and vomiting, [1] as well as swollen and painful lymph nodes occurring in the area closest to where the bacteria ...

7. Murine typhus - Wikipedia

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   Specialty. Infectious disease. Murine typhus, also known as endemic typhus or flea-borne typhus, is a form of typhus transmitted by fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis), usually on rats, in contrast to epidemic typhus which is usually transmitted by lice. [1][2][3] Murine typhus is an under-recognized entity, as it is often confused with viral illnesses.

8. Human flea - Wikipedia

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   Plague, a disease that affects humans and other mammals, is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. The human flea can be a carrier of the plague bacterium, although it is an exceptionally very poor vector of transmission. [4] Plague is infamous for killing millions of people in Eurasia during the Middle Ages. Without prompt treatment, the ...

9. Plague (disease) - Wikipedia

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   Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. [ 2 ] Symptoms include fever, weakness and headache. [ 1 ] Usually this begins one to seven days after exposure. [ 2 ] There are three forms of plague, each affecting a different part of the body and causing associated symptoms.