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

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    The plague was thought to be spread by rats, but it was actually bites from fleas on the rats (and then fleas spread from human to human) that spread the infection. Dr. Jeff Hersh Black death ...

  3. Theories of the Black Death - Wikipedia

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    Several possible causes have been advanced for the Black Death; the most prevalent is the bubonic plague theory. [3] Efficient transmission of Yersinia pestis is generally thought to occur only through the bites of fleas whose mid guts become obstructed by replicating Y. pestis several days after feeding on an infected host.

  4. Yersinia pestis - Wikipedia

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    It is a facultative anaerobic organism that can infect humans via the Oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis). [3] 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.

  5. Black Death - Wikipedia

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    The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic that occurred in Europe from 1346 to 1353. It was one of the most fatal pandemics in human history; as many as 50 million people [2] perished, perhaps 50% of Europe's 14th century population. [3] The disease is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and spread by fleas and through the air.

  6. Flea - Wikipedia

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    Aphaniptera. Flea, the common name for the order Siphonaptera, includes 2,500 species of small flightless insects that live as external parasites of mammals and birds. Fleas live by ingesting the blood of their hosts. Adult fleas grow to about 3 millimetres (8 inch) long, are usually brown, and have bodies that are "flattened" sideways or ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. 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.

  9. This Mushroom Smells Like Death to Attract Flies - AOL

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    The cage fungus, a brightly colored mushroom, smells like death and drips brown slime to attract flies, which helps the fungus spread. The cage fungus, a brightly colored mushroom, smells like ...

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