It's often transmitted by fleas that carry it from prairie dogs or other rodents.
Even track notes caution about goat fleas rather than the usual bears or snakes.
Guinea worm is a non-fatal disease transmitted by water fleas living in stagnant water.
The hedgehogs are housed in a shed where they are treated for ticks, fleas and internal parasites.
He has compared the UK to an English elephant and three Celtic fleas.
Circus director Robert Birk told the BBC he found some 300 fleas dead inside their transport box last week.
"I was just scratching my head and eating fleas and louses, " he recalled.
Fleas, locusts and frogs use their legs as springs to store energy and then fire them into the air.
The Golden Nit character was invented by 13-year-old Sarah from Swansea and was inspired by her cat getting fleas.
Not all bite complaints are due to fleas, of course - many can be attributed to bedbugs, midges and mosquitoes.
Dog on Fleas, on the other hand, took a whole bunch of styles and mixed them together to create something new.
The disease gets into the body when people drink contaminated water, which contains water fleas that have ingested Guinea worm larvae.
These are antiparasite agents (the most familiar of which is called ivermectin) that are widely used against fleas and gut worms.
People in our social networking epoch have the attention span of fleas.
The human stomach kills the water fleas, but not the larvae within.
Their first observation was that the songs of those males that had suffered fleas in early life were a third shorter than those sung by the others.
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Architect Igor De Vetyemy thinks Rio is suppressing its urge to talk about what birds do, bees do, and in the words of Cole Porter, even educated fleas do.
Museum director Michael Faber, who organises the fair in the western town of Mechernich-Kommern, said he hoped the new fleas would get through the show without suffering further casualties.
The brisk pacing mars the pageantry of the aristocratic court scenes, with unintentionally comic moments from the innocent child dancers who, as attending pages, skitter about like nervous fleas.
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Without any sense of the intervening hours, Houston awakened sweaty and all bitten up by mosquitoes and sand fleas, a sagging mattress swallowing him alive, a headache pounding against his skull.
The Yersinia pestis bacterium that is behind the plague is found mainly in rodents, particularly rats, and in the fleas that feed on them, the U.S. National Institutes of Health website says.
The Yersinia pestis bacteria that is behind the plague is found mainly in rodents, particularly rats, and in the fleas that feed on them, the U.S. National Institutes of Health website says.
This disease, spread like bubonic plague by fleas on rats that have escaped from ships, has come east from California into Texas and has slowly been working its way north up the Rocky Mountains.
The BGI has already solved the genomes of rice, cucumbers, soyabeans and sorghum, honeybees, water fleas, pandas, lizards and silkworms, and some 40 other species of plant and animal, along with over 1, 000 bacteria.
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An unseasonably warm winter in most parts of the country also means that the fleas and ticks will be in full force this summer, and grooming is one more way you can regularly check your pet for issues.
No nationwide survey of the insects' numbers has been published since former RAF pilot and school teacher Bob George, who began mapping them in the 1950s, published his Atlas of the Fleas of Britain and Ireland in 2008.
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