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🦠 Fleas

Human Flea

Pulex irritans

About

Once common in human homes, now relatively rare in developed countries. Historically responsible for transmitting bubonic plague. Can jump 33 cm vertically.

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Did You Know?

Human fleas were major plague vectors β€” the Black Death that killed 75-200 million people in the 14th century was largely spread by fleas on rats entering human homes.