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Oriental rat flea
Flea species Xenopsylla cheopis, the chief carrier of plague bacteria from rats to people.
Species
Identifiers
Wikidata Q499106
Appears in
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Pandemics
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Simond shows that rat fleas spread plague
1898
Sources
Book
Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present