Fleas, fleas, fleas!

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Today, we had an eight-week-old kitten (it may have been older, I am not sure when the information I was looking at was printed) come in for a bath that was covered in fleas to the point where he had become anemic. We gave him a capstar and a little bit of water and a/d while the capstar took effect. I then gave him a nice bath. He had such terrible flea dirt that his white fur turned red as soon as I wet him down. I tried to scrub him down the best I could and clean up everything. About every ten minutes for the next hour and a half I went in there and kept pulling off and crushing fleas that recently surfaced, who were either alive or who were dead or dying from having bitten after the capstar. We put frontline on the kitten, also. Do you ever fear that an animal who comes into the clinic covered in fleas may start a clinic-wide flea problem? I always get worried about stray fleas, even though we capstar and try to treat every animal that comes through the door.