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2. Flea treatments - Wikipedia

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   Flea adults, larvae, or eggs can be controlled with insecticides. Lufenuron is a veterinary preparation (known as Program) that attacks the larval flea's ability to produce chitin, necessary for the adult's hard exoskeleton, but it does not kill fleas. Flea medicines need to be used with care because many of them also affect mammals.

3. Tunga penetrans - Wikipedia

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   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 and certain other mammalian species.

4. Tungiasis - Wikipedia

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   (See image 7 of the life cycle diagram.) Surprisingly, the rest of the flea, including the head and the thorax, do not change in shape. [3] [11] With the rapid expansion of the flea, the morphology of the flea is now vastly different. It has gone from the smallest flea in the world to a bulging mass that measures 5–10 mm in diameter.

5. Pulicosis - Wikipedia

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   Pulicosis is a skin condition caused by several species of fleas, including the cat flea (Ctenocephalides felis) and dog flea (Ctenocephalides canis). This condition can range from mild irritation to severe irritation. In some cases, 48 to 72 hours after being bitten, a more severe rash-like irritation may begin to spread across the body.

6. Flea - Wikipedia

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   Once the flea reaches adulthood, its primary goal is to find blood and then to reproduce. [15] Female fleas can lay 5000 or more eggs over their life, permitting rapid increase in numbers. [16] Generally speaking, an adult flea only lives for 2 or 3 months. Without a host to provide a blood meal, a flea's life can be as short as a few days.

7. Dracunculiasis - Wikipedia

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   When worms emerge near joints, inflammation or infection of the affected area can result in permanent stiffness, pain, or destruction of the joint. [10] Some people with dracunculiasis have continuing pain for 12 to 18 months after the worm has emerged. [6] Around 1% of dracunculiasis cases result in death from secondary infections of the wound ...