When an outbreak of sylvatic plague decimated black-tailed prairie dog numbers in the Thunder Basin National Grassland in 2017, researchers saw an opportunity for a "natural experiment" to explore the ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a case study on Thursday that documents a dog in Colorado infecting humans with pneumonic plague in the United States. In June of 2014, a ...

The sudden death of a Northern Arizona resident due to the pneumonic plague- a diseases that is the known cause of the century old health crisis bubonic plague, has raised alarm among the locals and ...

SANTA FE COUNTY, N.M. (KRQE) – A rodent in Santa Fe County has been diagnosed with plague, marking the first confirmed wild ...

No known human exposure to the rodent, its colony or fleas in the area A prairie dog in the Hesperus-Breen area has tested positive for plague. Fleas from the prairie dog’s colony have been collected ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The plague has been confirmed in prairie dogs in the Badlands National Park, Buffalo Gap National Grassland, and the greater Conata-Badlands ecosystem, according to the ...

SCENIC, S.D. (AP) -- The prairie dog population in eastern Fall River County has been decimated, and officials believe the plague is responsible. Prairie dog deaths in the area make it less attractive ...

Residents may hate them, but businesses dealing with the burrowing rodent are having a banner season In August, the San Juan Basin Health Department confirmed that a burrow of prairie dogs ridden with ...