The Deadliest Parasite in Human History Lives Under Your Floor

💰 Support the channel: USDT TRC20: TBebXWjFeAJHfArVsJvt8N6Yv5rvn4GXP7 One hundred million people. That's how many people the flea has killed. Not a war, not a flu pandemic — an insect one eighth of an inch long. In this video we take the flea apart piece by piece: how it hunts, how it reproduces, why it's almost impossible to wipe out — and how it launched pandemics that wiped out entire cities. In this episode: — What a flea is and how its body works — How it finds its prey and drinks blood without anesthesia — The life cycle: why 95% of fleas are invisible — Fleas in the city: how they get into your apartment without any pets — How the flea launched the plague and killed a third of Europe — What diseases fleas carry today — How to actually protect yourself 👍 Subscribe to the channel — new videos about animals and the wild world every week. #flea #parasites #wildworld #nature #animals #interestingfacts #science #plague #insects #entomology #parasitology #urbanwildlife #dangerousinsects #biology #health