Fleas bite and could produce disease to people.
Fleas or a bacterial infection of the skin.
Yes they do.
maybe
No, fleas will live in your home and bite people instead. Your home will need to be treated for fleas if a fleas are seen!
The rats were infected with fleas. The fleas were infected with diseases that were transmitted to people by thr bite of the flea.
yes, they bite anything with hair/fur. lice on the other hand bite only people.
Fleas do not bite in the sense that they have no jaws or teeth. Instead, they have a highly developed set of mouth parts which act like a syringe needle. When flees bite, they actually drill through the skin to get to a blood vessel to drain blood from it.
yes but certain types dont
Mosquitoes, gnats, ticks, fleas.
If they bite you they can cause itching and irritation depending on where they were before they got on to you they can also transfer disease from other people or animals to you. For example the plague was transfered by fleas from rats to humans.
Fleas jump from host to host, so a flea can jump from one cat to another if bitten, but the bite itself will not cause the fleas.
They probably called it a flea market because fleas can crawl in and bite people up.