Sentences with phrase «by a rodent flea»

Humans usually get plague after being bitten by a rodent flea that is carrying the plague bacterium or by handling an animal infected with plague.

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That is the plague we know today: a true zoonosis sustained by infected rodents and the fleas that prey on them.

The disease — typically spread by fleas that carry the bacteria and can infect humans or small rodents, like rats — remains a threat, with minor outbreaks still common in Africa, the Americas, and Asia.

* Two small lab vials of Yersinia pestis, the cause of plague, is an acute bacterial infection transmitted to humans and some domestic animals by fleas that come from infected rodents.

The plague is caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium, which is carried by fleas and mostly affects rodents.

Believed to have originally come to Europe from Asia via the Silk Road trading route, it was thought that the repeated plague outbreaks that followed the Black Death epidemic were caused by rodent reservoirs in Europe — bacteria - infested fleas hiding out in rats.

The disease is mainly transmitted from the bite of infected fleas carried by rodents.

Tapeworms are caused by ingesting fleas, eating dead rodents, etc..

The hantavirus is carried by fleas often found on rodents.

Tapeworms are contracted by ingesting a flea that has ingested a tapeworm egg or segment, or by eating rodents and other wildlife that are infested with tapeworms and fleas.

The incidence of worms can be reduced by limiting your cat's exposure to hosts - i.e. fleas, slugs, snails, earthworms and rodents by keeping them indoors.

Neither did Linn ever link the «scientific» arguments for purging cats voiced in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries to the cat - purging ailurophobia that repeatedly swept medieval Europe in the name of fighting Satan ---- and escalated the spread of the Black Plague, carried mostly by fleas on rodents.

Thus, your dog is much more likely to become infected with parasites through fleas or by eating birds and rodents than by coprophagy.

There are several kinds of tapeworm the most common being Dipylidium Caninum this tapeworm uses fleas as the intermediate host whereas Taenia and Echinococcus which are less common are contracted by contact with either rodents such as rats, squirrels, mice and birds or larger livestock like Deer, Sheep, and Horses.

Thus, your pet is much more likely to become infected with parasites through fleas or by eating birds and rodents than by coprophagy.

For cats specifically, they typically become infected by tapeworms after accidentally eating a flea while grooming, or after eating a tapeworm - infected rodent.

Feral cats also bring pests like fleas and ticks, and they can start to affect the environment by preying on natural bird and rodent populations.

Cats contract bubonic plague in the same manner as humans, from yersina pestis bacteria carried by a flea whose natural hosts are rodents.

Even strictly indoor pets are at risk of intestinal parasites and fleas by eating rodents and flies.

The virus is found in rodents with rock squirrels, prairie dogs and ground squirrels being the most susceptible in the U.S. Fleas carried by the rodents transmit the bacteria to other animals and humans through their bites.