human flea
English
editNoun
edithuman flea (plural human fleas)
- A species of flea, Pulex irritans, with a variety of hosts, that is relatively prevalent among humans.
- 1915, F. C. Bishopp, Fleas as Pests to Man and Animals, with Suggestions for Their Control, US Department of Agriculture Farmers' Bulletin 683, page 2,
- The human flea normally attacks man, but may be found on a number of other animals.
- 2004, Dionysios Ch Stathakopoulos, Famine and Pestilence in the Late Roman and Early Byzantine Empire[1], page 128:
- Furthermore it is important to state that the role of the human flea[as a plague vector] was always thought to be of secondary importance compared to that of the rat flea.
- 2007, Robert Sallares, “Ecology, Evolution, and Epidemiolgy of Plague”, in Lester K. Little, editor, Plague and the End of Antiquity: The Pandemic of 541-750, page 272, footnote:
- Very high population concentrations of human fleas could conceivably lead to plague transmission even if the individual human flea is an inefficient vector (Hirst, Conquest of Plague, 186-87).
- 1915, F. C. Bishopp, Fleas as Pests to Man and Animals, with Suggestions for Their Control, US Department of Agriculture Farmers' Bulletin 683, page 2,