AWI is partnering with the Humane Society of the United States on emergency disease mitigation in South Dakota’s Conata Basin, home to the world’s largest remaining colony of black-tailed prairie dogs ...

A person in Pueblo County, Colorado, about 100 miles south of Denver, has been infected with bubonic plague ... including rats and prairie dogs. Plague occurs when infected fleas bite people ...

Well, believe it or not, the plague is still around. Blame fleas and the rats, mice, chipmunks, and squirrels they infect. Bubonic plague is caused by bacteria that live in fleas. If you get bit ...

As it advances, however, the dreaded bubonic plague causes painful ... Hundreds of animals can host the plague bacillus, including cats, dogs, rabbits, and squirrels. This vast reservoir of ...

It's a disease we associate with medieval times, when it was known as the "Black Death", but fears are growing that an outbreak of bubonic plague could be the next global pandemic. With that fear ...