There is also a snippet of live-action film, a clip showing an Oriental rat flea.

The Oriental rat flea has no genal or pronotal combs.

The oriental rat flea would become infected by the bacteria: yersinia pestis.

One of the oriental rat flea mouth's two functions is to squirt partly digested blood into a bite.

Oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis) Over 2,000 species have been described worldwide.

From there, it was most likely carried by Oriental rat fleas living on the black rats that were regular passengers on merchant ships.

Oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis)

This characteristic can be used to differentiate the oriental rat flea from the cat flea, dog flea, and other fleas.

The rats were the reservoir hosts of the Y. pestis bacteria and the flea principally the Oriental rat flea was the primary vector.

There are several types of fleas including the dog flea, cat flea, human flea, northern rat flea, and the oriental rat flea.

Fleas such as the human flea, Pulex irritans and the Oriental rat flea, Xenopsylla cheopis, transmit bubonic plague, murine typhus and tapeworms.

So too is the widely held mode of transmission of the bacteria has long been the black rat or, more precisely, the Oriental rat flea which is an ectoparasite on the black rat.

He also discovered and named the plague vector flea, Xenopsylla cheopis (Rothschild), also known as the oriental rat flea, at Shendi, Sudan, on an expedition in 1901, publishing his finding in 1903.

During the Middle Ages, the oriental rat flea that spread a bacteria that caused the Bubonic Plague, also known as the Black Death or Black Plague, a huge epidemic the size of today's bird flu.

The Oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis), also known as the tropical rat flea, is a parasite of rodents, primarily of the genus Rattus, and is a primary vector for bubonic plague and murine typhus.

More serious ailments transmitted by fleas include bubonic plague, a disease that is endemic in the American Southwest where it is spread primarily by the oriental rat flea from rodent to rodent and from rodent to humans, although 30 other flea species can also transmit the disease.

The tests were designed to determine coverage patterns and survivability of the tropical rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis) for use in biological warfare as disease vector.

The Oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis), also known as the tropical rat flea, is a parasite of rodents, primarily of the genus Rattus, and is a primary vector for bubonic plague and murine typhus.

The Black Death is traditionally believed to have been caused by the micro-organism Yersinia pestis, carried by the tropical rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis) which preyed on black rats living in European cities during the epidemic outbreaks of the Middle Ages; these rats were used as transport hosts.

The Black Death is traditionally believed to have been caused by the micro-organism Yersinia pestis, carried by the tropical rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis) which preyed on black rats living in European cities during the epidemic outbreaks of the Middle Ages; these rats were used as transport hosts.