Vector-borne PathogenVector ManagementInsect VirusMedicinePathogenesisEntomologyPathologyAshburton ThompsonPublic HealthVector ControlPlague InvestigationReviewednin 1905EpidemiologyHost-parasite RelationshipVector Borne Disease
THE literature on the transmission of plague by fleas was reviewednin 1905 in the first series of Reports on Plague Investigation in Indian(Journal of Hygiene, Vol. VI. p. 422), and it is only necessary to epitomisenbriefly the main facts here. The conclusion, that this insect plays annimportant role in the spread of plague, was arrived at on epidemiologicalngrounds by Ogata (1897), Simond (1898), Ashburton Thompson (1903),nand Liston (1905). Simond also made a...