Flea bites, anyone? Fleas don't tend to stay on the human body. Instead, they prefer to linger on animal fur (and even home furniture like carpets and beds) in order to reproduce. But flea bites can ...
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 ...