Mike DRYDEN ‘s students call him “ Doctor Flea ». He is the world specialist in the war against fleas.
	The doctor tests different kinds of traps in order to find the most efficient one to get rid of fleas.
	Americans spend one billion dollars a year to find a new molecule which will eliminate fleas. In all US labs the race is on !
	This molecule acts on the flea’s nervous system regulator.
	Flea breeder with « artificial dog » to increase the number of fleas.One flea sells for ten cents.
	DDT spraying in Malagasy to fight against the fleas, vector of bubonic plague.
	Child bitten by a flea. The doctor showing the bubon, the symptom of bubonic plague.
	The team of the Pasteur Institute of Malagasy taking blood from a rat infected with the bubonic plague.
	Miriam Rothschild, the most respected of fleas experts, was the first to discover the secrets of flea propulsion.
	The curator of the National History Museum showing one of the 270 000 specimens of fleas in the Lord Rothschild collection .
	17 th century ivory cylinder flea trap. Scented substances were used to attract fleas.
	15 th century ladies wore fur to trap fleas.
	The woman and the flea. One of the numerous paintings showing a lady hunting fleas. It was believed that there was a hormonal relation between women and fleas.
	Mary Lee Guderjahn owns one of the five automatic ( without fleas) flea circuses in the US. The special effects were created with the help of the GhostBusters team
	Woman looking at a flea circus inside a box.
	Maria Cardoso, who works with animal fleas, owns one of the last flea circuses in the world.
	Hans Mathes trainer of fleas going back 3 generations , feeds these human fleas on his arm.
	Panda Kroll is an American artist who created the nightmare and fleas paintings.
	The Ctenocephalides felis flea, the dog and cat flea, can jump the equivalent of the Eiffel Tower.It has an acceleration 50 times higher than a space shuttle.(electronic microscopy)
	Flea painting by Panda Kroll