Insects and History

Africa afterwards ancient animals appeared army Asia assassin bugs attack bacillary dysentery battle became bed-bugs beetles bites Black Death blood body British bubonic plague cattle caused century BC chapter China Chinese cholera cochineal crops Crusaders dead defeated desert locusts destroyed died Egypt Egyptian emerods Emperor empire endemic epidemic diseases Europe European expedition famine fleas forced France French German Greece Greek horses host house-fly human important India invaded Italy J. F. C. Hecker killed king known land later lice living locusts London Lord malaria mice Middle Ages mortality mosquitoes nagana Napoleon occurred outbreak pandemic parasites pestilence Philistines plague of Justinian population probably rats ravages rickettsiae Roman Rome Russia scarab scrub-typhus scurvy Sennacherib ships sickness silk silkworm slaves sleeping-sickness smallpox soldiers species spread suffered swarms symptoms syphilis throughout tion transmitted troops trypanosome tsetse flies typhoid typhus fever vectors West wrote yellow fever