| They are one of the primary carriers of sylvatic rabies and thus can be very dangerous to pets and humans. |
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| In 1985 the last wild population experienced simultaneous epizootics of canine distemper and sylvatic plague. |
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| Diminished prairie dog populations now face the even greater catastrophe of sylvatic plague, an introduced contagious disease for which prairie dogs have little immunity. |
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| In addition to sylvatic plague, a disease likely brought from Europe by ship rats, prairie dogs have suffered from aggressive poisoning campaigns by farmers and ranchers. |
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| Endangered black-footed ferrets are extremely susceptible to sylvatic plague, a disease that has seriously hampered efforts to re-establish ferrets to their historical range. |
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| Since its arrival, sylvatic plague has readily adapted to and pro foundly influenced wild American rodent populations. |
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| Small, burrowing rodents such as the deer mouse, for instance, spread the deadly hantavirus, and squirrels often carry sylvatic plague. |
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| Nineteen sylvatic species of triatomines were identified in the Amazon Basin, six in association with palm tree microhabitats. |
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| That obstacle is sylvatic plague, an exotic disease fatal to black-tailed prairie dogs. |
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| Health officials have found sylvatic plague in squirrels in Angeles National Forest. |
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| Case reports of returning travelers, and sequence data from sylvatic DENV strains account for most of what is known at the genomic level regarding DENV circulating in Africa. |
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| No sylvatic cycle has been reported in Asia as suggested in Africa. |
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| In Arizona, Gunnison's prairie dog populations have declined 98 percent, because of historic and current poisoning and shooting, sylvatic plague and habitat destruction. |
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