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You Do Not Need to Worry About the Bubonic Plague Squirrel in Colorado – Slate
The true squirrel menace lies elsewhere.
This Pennsylvania squirrel probably does not have the plague.Caleb Martin/Unsplash
On Monday, public health officials in Morrison, Colorado, announced that a squirrel had tested positive for the bubonic plague, aka the Black Death. In a world attuned to the danger of animal reservoirs for human disease (COVID-19 appears to have jumped species from bats; plague usually hitches a ride from rodent to person in the stomach of a flea), that story was going to raise fears. Sure enough, the plague squ…
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