LEWISTOWN — Drones might soon be dropping peanut butter-flavored treats laced with vaccine across some Montana prairie dog colonies under a plan to inoculate the rodents against the plague.

RAPID CITY, S.D. — Sylvatic plague has been found in a huge prairie dog colony on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, the second such case in South Dakota in a year. Plague was confirmed in two ...

A change to a single gene in the bacterium Yersinia pestis has enabled one of the world’s most notorious pathogens to survive for centuries.

Two prairie dogs were found dead last month in Doney Park northeast of the city, prompting officials to test for plague in the area. After collecting fleas from the animals' burrows, testing at a ...

Though most associate plague with a singular moment in medieval Europe, researchers say the bacteria has been infecting humans for at least 5,000 years ...

In 1998, conservationists asked the government to protect the black-tailed prairie dog, arguing that it was slipping toward extinction because of plague and the disappearance of open spaces across ...

No one likes for their furry pal to get bitten by fleas, but when camping in the American southwest, it's especially ...

The plague adapted to keep its hosts alive longer ... burrowing rodents such as prairie dogs or ground squirrels are considered key animal hosts that experience outbreaks of disease,” she ...

It's true prairie dogs suffer from epidemics of plague, but the risk to humans is overstated, said John Pape, an epidemiologist with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. "When ...

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