[gundog]

I know the prairie dogs and ground squirrels are vectors for bubonic plague. Are they a factor in pneumonic plague, as well?

[spaced]

The article doesn’t explain it well, but the pneumonic plague is bubonic plague that has settled into the patient’s lungs.

[dljordan]

I totally missed that it said pneumonic. My apologies. This puts a totally different light on things.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

i REMEMBER ABOUT 30 or 40 years ago when animal rights groups were screaming about prairie dogs going extinct. I went by our old place in NE NM and it was covered with prairie dog mounds.