The Flea in Its Relation to Plague, with a Synopsis
of the Rat Fleas. _The Military Surgeon_, 24, June, 1909, pp.
528-537. Review of the work of the Indian Plague Commission and
others. Key for identification of rat fleas.

GALLI-VALERIO. The Part Played by Fleas of Rats and Mice in the
Transmission of Bubonic Plague. _Jour. Trop. Med._, Feb., 1902.
Attacks the theory that plague can be conveyed from rats to men by
fleas because rat fleas do not bite men.

MCCOY, G.W. _Siphonaptera_ Observed in the Plague Campaign in
California with a Note upon Host Transference. _Pub. Health Report,
Pub. Health and Mar. Hospt. Ser._, Vol. XXIV, No. 29, July 16,
1909. Lists of species from various hosts. Report on experiments in
transferring rat fleas to squirrels and squirrel fleas to rats.

MCCOY, G.W., AND MITZMAIN, M.B. An Experimental Investigation of
the Biting of Man by Fleas Taken from Rats and Squirrels. _Public
Health Report_, XXIV, No. 8, Feb. 19, 1909, pp. 189-194. Rat and
squirrel fleas will bite man.

MITZMAIN, M.B. Insect Transmission of Bubonic Plague. A Study of
the San Francisco Epidemic. _Entomological News_, Oct., 1908.
Source and distribution of species of fleas and brief notes on work
of Indian Plague Commission.

MITZMAIN, M.B. How a Hungry Flea Feeds. _Entomological News_, Dec.,
1908.

MITZMAIN, M.B. Some New Facts on the Bionomics of the California
Rodent Fleas. _Annals Ento. Soc. Amer._, III, pp. 61-82, 1910.

SHIPLEY, A.E. Rats and Their Animal Parasites. _Jour. of Economic
Biology_, Vol. 3, No. 3, Oct. 28, 1908. List of species ecto- and
endoparasites.

See also reports of Advisory Commission under Plague.

TYPHOID FEVER

ANDERSON, J.F. The Differentiation of Outbreaks of Typhoid Fever
Due to Water, Milk, Flies and Contact. _Amer. Jour. Pub. Health_,
19, pp. 251-259. Discusses flies and typhoid.

MCCRAE, THOMAS. Typhoid Fever. _Osler's Mod. Med._, Vol. II, p.
70, 1907. A full discussion of this disease.

REED, WALTER; VAUGHAN, V.C., AND SHAKESPEARE, E.O. Abstract of
Report on the Origin and Spread of Typhoid Fever in the U.S.
Military Camps During the Spanish War of 1898. Washington, Govt.
Printing Office, 1900. Shows among other things that "flies
undoubtedly served as carriers of infection."

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