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Owing to human parasites, two fleas, namely Pulex irritans Linne, 1758
and Tunga penetrans (L., 1758) were brought from America to intertrop
ical Africa. The conquest of Africa by Pulex irritans, was really effe
ctive since the fifties, evidently by european strains. Some examples
selected in occidental and oriental Africa show the reality of this fa
ct. Accordingly, the epidemiological modalities in plague's african fo
ci can be strongly changed.