Study probes how plague spreads through wild rodent populations (IMAGE)

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Study probes how plague spreads through wild rodent populations

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Oropsylla montana (a ground squirrel flea) infected and blocked with Yersinia pestis.

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Mitchell et al, CC-BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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