BAKER, C.F. Fleas and Disease. _Science_, N.S., Vol. 22, No. 559, Sept. 15, 1905, p. 340. Discusses the possibility of fleas transmitting leprosy.
DOANE, R.W. Notes on Fleas, Collected on Rat and Human Hosts in San Francisco and Elsewhere. _Can. Ento._, 40, 1908, pp. 303-304. Shows that _Ceratophyllus fasciatus_ and _Pulex irritans_ are common on both man and rats.
FOX, CARROLL. The Flea in Its Relation to Plague, with a Synopsis of the Rat Fleas. _The Military Surgeon_, 24, June, 1909, pp. 528-537. Review of the work of the Indian Plague Commission and others. Key for identification of rat fleas.
GALLI-VALERIO. The Part Played by Fleas of Rats and Mice in the Transmission of Bubonic Plague. _Jour. Trop. Med._, Feb., 1902. Attacks the theory that plague can be conveyed from rats to men by fleas because rat fleas do not bite men.
MCCOY, G.W. _Siphonaptera_ Observed in the Plague Campaign in California with a Note upon Host Transference. _Pub. Health Report, Pub. Health and Mar. Hospt. Ser._, Vol. XXIV, No. 29, July 16, 1909. Lists of species from various hosts. Report on experiments in transferring rat fleas to squirrels and squirrel fleas to rats.
MCCOY, G.W., AND MITZMAIN, M.B. An Experimental Investigation of the Biting of Man by Fleas Taken from Rats and Squirrels. _Public Health Report_, XXIV, No. 8, Feb. 19, 1909, pp. 189-194. Rat and squirrel fleas will bite man.
MITZMAIN, M.B. Insect Transmission of Bubonic Plague. A Study of the San Francisco Epidemic. _Entomological News_, Oct., 1908. Source and distribution of species of fleas and brief notes on work of Indian Plague Commission.
MITZMAIN, M.B. How a Hungry Flea Feeds. _Entomological News_, Dec., 1908.
MITZMAIN, M.B. Some New Facts on the Bionomics of the California Rodent Fleas. _Annals Ento. Soc. Amer._, III, pp. 61-82, 1910.
SHIPLEY, A.E. Rats and Their Animal Parasites. _Jour. of Economic Biology_, Vol. 3, No. 3, Oct. 28, 1908. List of species ecto- and endoparasites.
See also reports of Advisory Commission under Plague.
ANDERSON, J.F. The Differentiation of Outbreaks of Typhoid Fever Due to Water, Milk, Flies and Contact. _Amer. Jour. Pub. Health_, 19, pp. 251-259. Discusses flies and typhoid.
MCCRAE, THOMAS. Typhoid Fever. _Osler's Mod. Med._, Vol. II, p. 70, 1907. A full discussion of this disease.