[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.

[jerseygirl]

Plague in Texas (rats). Is this something that has occurred before?