Kenneth Gage, plague section chief of the CDC, notes that historically plague may have been transmitted among humans by the so-called human flea, Pulex irritans, or via airborne transmission.
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In 1890 he, with Salvatore Calandruccio, described " Dipetalonema reconditum ", a non-pathogenic filarial worm of dogs, and showed that the parasite completed its development in human fleas, " Pulex irritans ".
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:: : : But there is a campaign to save the human flea IIRC . People have been quite successful in eliminating this parasite, but how can one set up flea circuses without it?
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The attraction consisted of harnessed human fleas racing chariots at the rate of an inch every few seconds, pulling a garden roller, riding a tricycle and " fencing fleas " scrabbling at pins stuck in pieces of cork in a semblance of a sword fight.
