[Velveeta]

Rat delays Dubai-bound Saudi Airlines Flight in Chennai


By IndiaExpress Bureau

The presence of an "intruder", a rat, in a Dubai-bound Saudi Airlines flight, shortly before take-off from Chennai, delayed its departure.

The aircraft arrived from Dubai at 9.30 am and all 117 passengers had boarded it when a rat was found beneath a seat, airport sources said.
(snip)http://www.indiaexpress.com/news/regional/tamil_nadu/chennai/20040508-0.html

[jerseygirl]

Hmmmm. Rat delays flight. Wonder if rat had plague?

[JustPiper]

PLAGUE, RODENTS - USA (TEXAS)

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Source: Texas Department of Health press release [edited]


Plague Identified in Rodents in West Texas, Panhandle

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The Texas Department of Health (TDH) confirmed today that _Yersinia
pestis_, the bacterium that causes plague, has been detected in wood
rats found dead in a rural location near the Midland-Glasscock
counties border in West Texas and in fleas from wild prairie dogs in
Dallam County in the Texas Panhandle.