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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo11amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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FLEA CARRIERS OF THE PLAGUE Tiir. i'i.A(;rK c;khm i\ man is idkmk ai. with thai" in iiik rat and KI.KAS MAY ( AKUV TlIK (iKK.M TO MAX Ihl Fraiil: E. Liifz S( 11'",\( v. was late in (lisf()\('i-in<i' and llic world in acccjit iii,u I lie knowl- edge that insects may 1k' conunon carriers of disease. In fact it is not so \^'\■y many years since science isolated the minute germs themseKt's for identification in such cases as typhoid, malaria, yellow fever ami plague. To-day fiies and mosquitoes stand convicted the world over as carriers of disease germs and the warfare against them is well on. In this case there are three factors concerned in the battle and man conquers the germ by exterminating the insect. Fleas as disease carriers have been conspicuously before the world of late; they also stand convicted, but the question concerns the interrelation- ship of four: man, the flea as carrier, the rat or other animal on which the flea is parasitic and the disease germ. Again warfare is against the insect but to be successful it must be directed with full force againet the rat, its host. Would that in all instances the whole trio —rat, flea and germ — Head of rat flea. Many plague germs may be carried on the mouth part-s of a fiea
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and 5000 or more In the stomach where t hey will live or 15 to 20 (lays Photomicrograph ' ' Flea illustrations from Doane's Insects and Disease by courtesy of Henry Holt and Company. Other cuts by courtesy of McClure's and Country Life in America 95

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1911
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  • bookid:americanmuseumjo11amer
  • bookyear:c1900-[1918]
  • bookdecade:c190
  • bookcentury:c100
  • bookauthor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • booksubject:Natural_history
  • bookpublisher:New_York_American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • bookcontributor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History_Library
  • booksponsor:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library
  • bookleafnumber:123
  • bookcollection:biodiversity
  • bookcollection:americanmuseumnaturalhistory
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