Fleas do not typically live on humans; they prefer animal hosts. However, according to Bentley, they will resort to biting ...

Female fleas can lay up to 2,000 eggs in their lifetime, depositing them in pet fur, carpets, or grassy areas. You must ...

But a team from the universities of Oslo and Ferrara now says the first, the Black Death, can be "largely ascribed to human fleas and body lice". The study, in the Proceedings of the National ...

The plague still continues to haunt prairies and other rodents, especially in the western half of the United States.