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The bacterial disease is spread to humans by fleas carried by wild animals and is not transmitted from person to person.

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Humans can contract it from flea dirt (which is the poop of fleas) as well as flea bites. Cat-scratch disease is caused by the bacteria Bartonella henselae.

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 ...

Instead, "human ectoparasites" -- meaning fleas residing on people, not rats -- may have been the primary sources for spreading the illness, including the devastating Black Death of 1346 to 1353.

Deadly Bite When fleas infected with the bacterium Yersinia pestis bite humans, the bacteria can jump into the bloodstream and congregate in humans’ lymph nodes, which are found throughout the body.