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2. Human flea - Wikipedia

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   The human flea (Pulex irritans) – once also called the house flea[1] – is a cosmopolitan flea species that has, in spite of the common name, a wide host spectrum. It is one of six species in the genus Pulex; the other five are all confined to the Nearctic and Neotropical realms. [2] The species is thought to have originated in South America ...

3. Flea - Wikipedia

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   A flea can jump 60 times its length in height and 110 times its length in distance, equivalent to a 1.8 m (6 ft) adult human jumping 110 m (361 ft) vertically and 200 m (656 ft) horizontally. Rarely do fleas jump from dog to dog. Most flea infestations come from newly developed fleas from the pet's environment. [6]

4. Flea treatments - Wikipedia

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   Flea infestation in the home is treated in various ways. Insecticides. A spot-on insecticide kills the fleas on the pet. A fogger or spray insecticide containing an insect growth regulator, such as pyriproxyfen or methoprene can kill eggs and pupae, which are quite resistant to insecticides.

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

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   Fleas do not typically live on humans; they prefer animal hosts. However, according to Bentley, they will resort to biting people when animals are unavailable and can then readily return to pets ...

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

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   The most infamous flea-to-human transmitted disease is the bubonic plague, which was caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. It was called the Black Death in the mid-1300s when it caused an ...

7. How to Tell the Difference Between Fleabites and Mosquito Bites

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   Fleabites vs. mosquito bites. Mosquitos and fleas prefer the same warmer climates, and both of these pesky critters will suck your blood after a bite. (Keep an eye out for these dangerous bugs ...

8. Tunga penetrans - Wikipedia

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   Tunga penetrans. (Linnaeus, 1758) Tunga penetrans is a species of flea also known as the jigger, jigger flea, chigoe, chigo, chigoe flea, chigo flea, nigua, sand flea, or burrowing flea. It is a parasitic insect found in most tropical and sub-tropical climates. In its parasitic phase it has significant impact on its hosts, which include humans ...

9. List of parasites of humans - Wikipedia

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   tick bites, e.g. Ixodes scapularis. Balantidiasis. Balantidium coli. intestinal mucosa, may become invasive in some patients. stool (diarrhea=ciliated trophozoite; solid stool=large cyst with horseshoe shaped nucleus) ingestion of cyst, zoonotic infection acquired from pigs (feces) Blastocystosis. Blastocystis spp.