Scanning Electron Micrograph Of A Flea (False Colors) (IMAGE)

University of Cambridge

Scanning Electron Micrograph Of A Flea (False Colors)

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Latest research suggests that ancestral Bronze Age plague mutated into the bubonic form carried by fleas between the 2nd and 1st millennium BC.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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