| | Urban Entomology [Ebeling Chap. 9 part 3] Pests Attacking Mand and His Pets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30) |
 | | (In southern Texas, grass is often so heavily infested with cat fleas that they are locally known as "grass fleas.") The greatest incidence of murine typhus in southern Texas has been noted to be in women and children, who spent more time at home where most of the illnesses were contracted (Older, 1970). |
 | | Likewise in southern California, where 34 separate outbreaks of murine typhus were recorded from 1952 to 1969, 21 were in families that owned cats or had frequent contact with them. |
 | | It is one of the most abundant fleas in the southern states and southern California., and is the most important vector of bubonic plague and murine typhus. |
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