Plague risk in the western United States over seven decades of environmental change
70 years of data from the western U.S. was used to investigate how plague crosses between animal reservoirs to the human population, and whether environmental changes might be upsetting the balance.
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Plague pandemics have been among the worst in human history. NORDEMICS member Boris Schmidt and his colleagues used 70 years of data from the western U.S. to investigate how plague crosses between animal reservoirs to the human population, and whether environmental changes might be upsetting the balance.
Read the paper 'Plague risk in the western United States over seven decades of environmental change' in Global Change Biology.