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Rodent Danger
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A rodent's burrow may have been the source of infection for Carl Weinmeister of Santa Fe, New Mexico. In 1983 he survived plague caught from a flea that one of his pets picked up from an infected rodent.
Photograph by Nicole Duplaix

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