feces

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Once infected, the flea spreads the disease to humans when flea feces is rubbed into cuts or scrapes on the skin or the eyes.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Many dogs stepped around feces to greet potential adopters through the bars of their kennels.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026

All three parasites spread through poor sanitation, typically when food, water, or hands are contaminated with human feces.

From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2025

Higher in the mountains, the evidence of BTAZ’s grazing was even clearer: swaths of ground chewed and trampled bare, discarded plastic piping, cow feces and bones in an unfenced creek.

From Salon • Dec. 4, 2025

It may come as a surprise to learn that plant seeds can resist digestion by your gut and nonetheless germinate out of your feces.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond