The human flea (Pulex irritans) – once also called the house flea – is a cosmopolitan flea species that has, in spite of the common name, a wide host spectrum...
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the world's people. Fleas appear in human culture in such diverse forms as flea circuses; poems, such as John Donne's erotic "The Flea"; works of music,...
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Tunga penetrans (redirect from Chloe flea)
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...
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occurs when a flea that has fed on an infected rodent bites a human, although this flea can live on any warm blooded mammal. The Oriental rat flea has no genal...
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Flea treatments are procedures used to treat flea infestations in human or animal populations. They may treat both the itching caused by bites and may...
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infected flea, Xenopsylla cheopis (the Oriental rat flea). Several flea species carried the bubonic plague, such as Pulex irritans (the human flea), Xenopsylla...
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Michael Peter Balzary (born October 16, 1962), known professionally as Flea, is an American musician and actor. He is a founding member and bassist of...
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Yersinia pestis (section Fleas as vector)
fever. It is a facultative anaerobic organism that can infect humans via the Oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis). It causes the disease plague, which caused...
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Ctenocephalides canis. Cat fleas originated in Africa but can now be found globally. As humans began domesticating cats, the prevalence of the cat flea increased and...
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The dog flea (Ctenocephalides canis) is a species of flea that lives as an ectoparasite on a wide variety of mammals, particularly the domestic dog and...
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Pulicosis (redirect from Flea bites)
skin condition caused by several species of fleas, including the cat flea (Ctenocephalides felis) and dog flea (Ctenocephalides canis). This condition can...
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Pulex (category Flea stubs)
Pulex is a genus of fleas. It comprises seven species. One is the human flea (P. irritans), and five of the others are confined to the Nearctic and Neotropical...
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Tungiasis (redirect from Peruvian chigoe flea)
ectoparasitic Tunga penetrans, a flea also known as the chigoe, chigo, chigoe flea, chigo flea, jigger, nigua, sand flea, or burrowing flea (and not to be confused...
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Unit 731 (redirect from Japanese human experimentation)
anthrax, typhoid, paratyphoid, glanders, dysentery, and plague-infected human fleas. These agents were robust enough to ignite epidemics of considerable...
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A flea circus is a circus sideshow attraction in which fleas are attached (or appear to be attached) to miniature carts and other items, and encouraged...
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"The Flea" is an erotic metaphysical poem (first published posthumously in 1633) by John Donne (1572–1631). The exact date of its composition is unknown...
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Dipylidium caninum (category Parasitic helminths of humans)
that infects organisms afflicted with fleas and canine chewing lice, including dogs, cats, and sometimes human pet-owners, especially children. The adult...
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protecting the entrance. The site provided the earliest known record of the human flea (Pulex irritans) in Europe. The Grooved Ware People who built Skara Brae...
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Type Name Flea Human flea Flea Tungiasis Fly (myiasis) Cochliomyia hominivorax (screw-worm) Fly (myiasis) Cordylobia anthropophaga (blow-fly) Fly (myiasis)...
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from human fleas and body lice to other people". The second model claims to better fit the trends of the plague's death toll, as the rat-flea-human hypothesis...
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Arthropod bites and stings (category Arthropods and humans)
(sting) Yellow Jackets (sting) Paper wasps (sting) Fleas (bite) Human flea Pulex irritans Chigoe flea Tunga penetrans Lice (bite) Head lice Body lice Crab...
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carried by them include the fleas Paraceras melis (the badger flea), Chaetopsylla trichosa and Pulex irritans (the human flea), the lice Trichodectes melis...
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Nosopsyllus fasciatus (redirect from Northern rat flea)
can spread from animals to humans. Diseases that can be spread through fleas include the plague and typhus. The rat flea is widespread due to their relationship...
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not) include a cough, pain in the chest, and haemoptysis. When a flea bites a human and contaminates the wound with regurgitated blood, the plague-causing...
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needed] Human Yersinia infections most commonly result from the bite of an infected flea or occasionally an infected mammal. The role of rats and fleas specifically...
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The Autobiography of a Flea is an anonymous erotic novel first published in 1887 in London by Edward Avery. Later research has revealed that the author...
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The Ghost of a Flea is a miniature painting by the English poet, painter and printmaker William Blake, held in the Tate Gallery, London. Measuring only...
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to stop Lobo. This group includes Black Condor, El Diablo, Garryn Bek, Human Flea, Strata, Velvet Tiger, and Wotan. Wild Dog was recently seen, alongside...
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causes phthiriasis Human botfly maggot (Dermatobia hominis): causes myiasis Flea (Siphonaptera): causes papular urticaria Chigoe flea (Tunga penetrans):...
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by chiggers, and murine typhus is caused by Rickettsia typhi spread by fleas. Vaccines have been developed, but none are commercially available. Prevention...
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