Sentences with phrase «transmitting bubonic»

# 88 — That rats can carry fleas transmitting bubonic plague applies only to those rats they tested for infected fleas, and does not apply to the rats they did not test.
Fleas are also capable of transmitting bubonic plague from rodent to rodent as well as from rodent to human.
Among them: 500 - plus Oriental rat fleas, notorious for their role in transmitting the bubonic plague, also known as the Black Death.
Fleas cause several diseases, such as tapeworms, flea allergy dermatitis, and even can transmit the bubonic plague!

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However, it is well known that ectoparasites transmit disease, says the Wisconsin epidemiologist, noting that things like ticks and fleas harbor important pathogens like typhus, bubonic plague, Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
Most are bubonic plague, transmitted from rats to humans by the bite of a flea.
But researchers now realize that it probably wasn't until the end of the Bronze Age that the bacteria evolved from a less virulent species that may have spread more like the flu, tuberculosis, or AIDS than the bubonic plague, which is transmitted through flea bites to the skin.
This poor island nation is regularly hit by plague outbreaks, but they are typically the relatively less dangerous bubonic form, transmitted from rats to humans by fleas, and occur largely in remote areas.
The great plague expert Wu Lien - teh and his associates established during the Third Pandemic that bubonic plague was not transmitted from person to person; it required a bite from the Y. pestis - infected flea to transmit the disease.
One possible example of this was the bubonic plague, which may have been transmitted between rodents and humans.
Fleas are a nuisance but can also transmit diseases to people such as bubonic plague, murine typhus and spotted fever.
External parasites such as ticks and fleas transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever, bubonic plague, and other serious diseases.
With people, fleas can transmit diseases such as cat scratch fever (bartonella) and the bubonic plague.
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