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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...-found-carrying-infectious-disease/570364001/
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Fleas tested positive for the the bubonic plague in two counties in Arizona, with public health officials warning the infectious disease that claimed millions in the Middle Ages may exist in other nearby locations, too.
The plague's presence in Arizona follows three confirmed human cases in New Mexico earlier this year.
Officials became wary of the problem after prairie dogs began dropping dead on a resident's property near Williams, Ariz., some 30 miles west of Flagstaff. Fleas in the area later tested positive for the Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes the plague.
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