Xenopsylla cheopis (oriental rat flea) engorged with blood. This flea is the primary vector of plague in most large plague epidemics in Asia, Africa, and South America. Both male and female fleas can transmit the infection. Flea - Xenopsylla cheopis Plague mass in poventriculus wih finger like projection into stomach - third day of infection with P. pestis. 28; C 44272

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