Vaccine shown to protect prairie dogs from bacterial disease
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July 7, 2017
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A vaccine developed in Wisconsin has been shown to protect prairie dogs from plague, a bacterial disease that has sickened three people in New Mexico this year.
The Wisconsin State Journal says (http://bit.ly/2sQ9QXK ) researchers reported that prairie dogs that ingested vaccine baits were twice as likely to survive outbreaks of plague as prairie dogs that didn't get the vaccine.
The vaccine was developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the U.S. Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center in Madison.
The three-year study involved 58 colonies of the grass...
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