Eating 'Ouch-less' Vaccines Protects Prairie Dogs In The Lab Against Plague

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Eating 'Ouch-less' Vaccines Protects Prairie Dogs In The Lab Against Plague

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A new oral vaccine against sylvatic plague is showing significant promise in the laboratory as a way to protect prairie dogs and may eventually protect endangered black-footed ferrets who now get the disease by eating infected prairie dogs, according to new results. Sylvatic plague is an infectious bacterial disease usually transmitted from animal to animal by fleas.

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