While working with people who were suffering from tungiasis, Thielecke herself fell prey to a sand flea that tunneled deep into the sole of her right foot. A person with advanced tungiasis.

included a 10-day history of pain and itchiness before she sought care. Doctors then removed the sand fleas from the bottom of her foot and diagnosed her with tungiasis.

Bennet-Clark believed a flea pushed down through its tibia and tarsus (equivalent to a human shin and foot or toe, respectively). Meanwhile, fellow flea researcher Miriam Rothschild believed that ...

“If they have to cut more feet off, they might have to just do a whole foot amputation for prosthetic purposes.” Typhus is an infectious disease caused by bacteria that spread from ...

A single flea bite has caused a Texas man to lose several limbs over the past month. There are more than 2,500 different flea species found around the world, but only four are known to severely ...