Spent a while in Arizona standing in the middle of a prairie dog area
watching the cute little critters sunning themselves and drinking from a dripping faucet. THey were running all around us, playing and fighting and generally having a good time.
Then on the way out passed a sign which said, "Warning: Prarie dogs are host to fleas which can sometimes carry bubonic plague"
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mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Thu 19 Jul 2012, 1:45,
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There Was An Experiment
in the early 1900s where they tried to eradicate plague from an African town. The thinking went - we'll kill off all the rats, destroy the plague reservoir and be free of the disease.
So they started on a massive baiting program, killed millions of rats - who all crawled above ground to die releasing their fleas and, Hey Presto! - instant plague outbreak.
Cheers
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Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Thu 19 Jul 2012, 1:58,
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