And it’s not even that unusual. Plague bacteria Yersinia pestis darken a rat flea's gut; if the flea bites another animal, the plague washes into the wound and infects the new host. In the U.S ...

Researchers looked at data on prairie dog distributions before and after the plague, along with surveys of the area’s vegetation and its animals — including carnivores such as badgers ...

“Because they’re a bit more susceptible, and sometimes if a prairie dog colony suddenly disappears, that might have been due to a plague die-off where that colony got infected,” said Phipps.

Oldtimers, swatting at the little pests, knew that an old plague had returned ... Around Helena, Ark., 500 farm animals expired in the lowlands. More & more deaths were recorded to the southward.

Mountain plovers, birds that thrive when vegetation is kept shorter by prairie dogs, almost disappeared from the study area when plague decimated prairie dog numbers in 2017. (Jacob Hennig Photo) When ...

Remedies for the starling plague were suggested, some facetious, some earnest, all equally inefficacious. Some citizen urged sawing down trees where starling; had nested. Others suggested that ...

The CDC says this form comes from flea bites or from handling an infected animal. Pneumonic plague is the most serious form of the disease, and it occurs when the bacteria gets into the lungs.

ALONG WITH FOUR PIGS. WELL, NEW MEXICO HAS ITS FIRST REPORTED CASE OF THE ANIMAL PLAGUE THIS YEAR, THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH REPORTING A DOG LIVING IN SANTA FE COUNTY, WAS DIAGNOSED AND HAS SINCE ...

SANTA FE, New Mexico (KVIA) -- A Santa Fe County dog was just diagnosed with the plague. It's the first animal plague case in New Mexico of 2025. The New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH ...