Well, yes you can, and here’s an X-ray of a human flea, male left and female right (Picture: Getty) Itching and scratching is not a good look. Cats just about manage to get away with it. But humans?

Snow fleas, also known as springtails or Collembola (the scientific name for their group), were everywhere. On warm winter days these tiny denizens of the soil and leaf litter emerge in massive ...

A Coconino County resident died of a rare case of pneumonic plague earlier this month. Dave Wagner, director of Northern ...

That doesn’t mean you won’t be able to tell a flea bite apart from say, a mosquito bite—and pictures of flea bites on humans can help. Keep reading for expert-vetted visuals, plus what to do ...

Although the county did not record a single case of flea-borne typhus in humans between 1993 and 2006, the infectious disease is now considered by the state’s health department to be endemic, ...

Plague has caused numerous outbreaks and at least three pandemics during the course of history, and although the Black Death lasted from the 14th to the 19th century and killed between 75 million ...

The flea's bad reputation may be somewhat undeserved, according to new research. In the 14th century, the insect played a major role in the spread of bubonic plague, which killed tens of millions ...

On both humans and animals, flea bites look like small red bumps, about two to 10 millimeters in size. ... Throw away vacuum container bags and regularly clean vacuum filters.