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Coconino County has confirmed its first human death from the plague in nearly two decades. Health officials say a Coconino ...
CCHHS also confirmed on Tuesday afternoon a case of hantavirus and an incident of rabies exposure in Coconino County.
The goal was to confirm the prediction that prairie-dog colonies experiencing plague showed “increases in small-mammal, prairie-dog and flea abundance in the years preceding a plague event.” In total, ...
Prairie dogs living in a colony near Broomfield’s Great Western Reservoir Open Space are the first 2017 victims of plague in Colorado.
F O R T   B E L K N A P,  Mont., Sept. 5 -- An outbreak of bubonic plague is turning prairie dog towns into ghost towns on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation. “Right now, it’s a ...
On the grasslands a few miles from the pinnacles and spires of Badlands National Park, federal wildlife officials have been waging a war since spring to save one of the nation's largest colonies ...
Officials first discovered plague-infected prairie dogs at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge near Denver in July 2019. (Video: Denver 7 News) By Morgan Krakow.
Parts of a Denver-area wildlife refuge remain closed after the entire area shuttered in late July when authorities discovered prairie dogs infected with a form of the plague, officials said over ...
Plague is frequently detected in rock squirrels, prairie dogs, wood rats, ground squirrels, chipmunks, mice, voles and rabbits. SJBPH investigates prairie dog population die-offs for the presence ...
Officials at a Colorado wildlife refuge are cautiously moving forward with a plan to reopen parts of their facility this week in the wake of a plague outbreak amongst prairie dogs in the area. The ...
Yes, there's a vaccine for the plague, one of the most notorious diseases known to humanity. But unfortunately, this vaccine isn't for humans — it's for prairie dogs. This prairie-dog vaccine ...
Prairie dogs living in a colony near Broomfield’s Great Western Reservoir Open Space are the first 2017 victims of plague in Colorado.