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Article: BLOOD-SUCKING HORROR TALES ONE MAN'S ODE TO THE NASTY, SCUMMY, FOUL FLEA.(Living)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- July 28, 1990
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Byline: Fred Tasker Knight-Ridder
Fancy the fetid flea, foul of face and foul of form, packing more affliction into one-sixteenth of an inch than your average whole Nazi.
THE FLEA IS DISGUSTING.
It is called siphonaptera, from the Greek "siphon" for "filthy little bugger," the Latin "a" for "without" and the Greek "ptera" for "redeeming virtue." (Just kidding there. It actually means "tube without wings.")
THE FLEA IS SICKENING.
From a single flea bite, Chazzie, the pretty silver Persian cat of Julie Silver of Plantation, Fla., gets allergic sores all over his body.
"He goes crazy. We have to get him cortisone ...