• Although extremely small in size, fleas have played a large role in history by spreading typhoid fever and bubonic plague.
   
• Fleas prefer your dog or cat, but will transfer to humans. Five minutes exposure to hungry fleas is too much for most people.
   
• A female lays several hundred eggs in a lifetime. Over a two week period they can complete a generation.
   
• Flea eggs are laid and mature in places where your pet frequents and often a favorite chair, bed, carpeting.

• Health and Property Alert: Fleas need animal or human blood for survival. They spread disease by feeding on infected animals and then in turn transmit disease to man. The rat-flea-to-man cycle caused bubonic plague.

Protection

• Follow your veterinarian's advice. Pest control operators will not treat animals. Fleas are basically an animal problem. But when fleas become a people problem, start by giving your home a thorough cleaning to clear eggs from baseboards, rugs, upholstery, floor and wall cracks, ventilators, closets, etc. Be sure to empty your vacuum cleaner immediately (outdoors, not inside).