Plague in the Prairie.

• Autores: Paul Voosen
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 300, Nº. 2, 2009, págs. 22-24
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article discusses the potential to control the spread of plague among prairie dogs in the Midwestern U.S. by observing giant gerbils in Kazakhstan. The death of entire villages of Kazakhs due to plague in the years prior to World War II is noted, mentioning that the Soviet Union was able to control the spread of plague by killing the fleas that infected the gerbils which in turn infected humans.