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  2. 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.

  3. Septicemic plague - Wikipedia

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    These cats and dogs could then expose humans to the plague when the animal brings those infected fleas around people. [4] However, like most bacterial systemic diseases, the disease may also be transmitted through an opening in the skin or by inhaling infectious droplets of moisture from sneezes or coughs. In both cases septicemic plague need ...

  4. Human flea - Wikipedia

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    Plague, a disease that affects humans and other mammals, is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. The human flea can be a carrier of the plague bacterium, although it is an exceptionally very poor vector of transmission. [4] Plague is infamous for killing millions of people in Eurasia during the Middle Ages. Without prompt treatment, the ...

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

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    The most infamous flea-to-human transmitted disease is the bubonic plague, which was caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. The plague, fevers, tularemia: The diseases fleas can carry and how to ...

  6. Flea - Wikipedia

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    Fleas are vectors for viral, bacterial and rickettsial diseases of humans and other animals, as well as of protozoan and helminth parasites. [35] Bacterial diseases carried by fleas include murine or endemic typhus [34]: 124 and bubonic plague. [36] Fleas can transmit Rickettsia typhi, Rickettsia felis, Bartonella henselae, and the myxomatosis ...

  7. Feline zoonosis - Wikipedia

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    A feline zoonosis is a viral, bacterial, fungal, protozoan, nematode or arthropod infection that can be transmitted to humans from the domesticated cat, Felis catus. Some of these diseases are reemerging and newly emerging infections or infestations caused by zoonotic pathogens transmitted by cats. In some instances, the cat can display ...

  8. Murine typhus - Wikipedia

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    Rats can develop the infection, and help spread the infection to other fleas that bite them, and help multiply the number of infected fleas that can then infect humans. Less often, endemic typhus is caused by Rickettsia felis and transmitted by fleas carried by cats or opossums. In the United States of America, murine typhus is found most ...

  9. Rickettsia felis - Wikipedia

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    Rickettsia felis is a species of bacterium, the pathogen that causes cat-flea typhus in humans, also known as flea-borne spotted fever. [3] Rickettsia felis also is regarded as the causative organism of many cases of illnesses generally classed as fevers of unknown origin in humans in Africa.