>Hate to tell you this *G* but as long as you have a child in school be ready for catching just about everything! :o)

Our daughter went to a sleepover the other week and caught fleas, through a very interesting channel. The bed she was offered was just too soft for her, so she opted for sleeping on the rug. They have cats there. It took us few hours of spraying stuff all over her room, rug and bed specially, then vacuuming it all.

Back home we had a dog which regularly caught fleas and ticks whenever he broke the chain and went for one of his binges (and last time we visited the neighborhood there were a lot of dogs looking like him :), but we never caught anything from him. Not a single flea jumped over. Probably because we never allowed him in. He was a purebred yardianer.