Sentence examples for rodent plague from inspiring English sources

They know only too well the fallout from this unstoppable rodent plague.

During the period of 1990 to 2006, among 381 villages of Lianghe county, 55 experienced at least one plague epidemic, 6 of them human and rodent plague and the others only rodent plague.

Ninety-one rodent plague epidemics have occurred in Lianghe county, Yunnan Province, China, between 1990 and 2006.

This study aimed to identify predictors for the presence and abundance of small mammals in households of villages endemic for rodent plague in Lianghe county.

The objective of the present study was to identify predictors for the presence and abundance of small mammals in houses of villages endemic for commensal rodent plague in Lianghe county.

While the population of small mammals is directly determined by births, deaths, immigration and emigration [ 13], extraneous factors related to human eco-behavior in endemic areas of commensal rodent plague are not well documented.

Rodent plagues cause a major problem for agriculture in many temperate regions, and immunocontraception offers a new method to control fertility in these and other pest vertebrates.

In Australia there is some migration as the birds move towards the northern coast in the dry season and southward in the wet, and also nomadic movements in association with rodent plagues.

Three others probably came from apes (hepatitis B) or rodents (plague and typhus), the review says, and four other temperate diseases (rubella, syphilis, tetanus and typhoid) came from sources that are still unknown.

Transmitted to humans by fleas from infected rodents, the plague attacks the glands and early manifests itself by swellings (buboes) in the armpits and the groin, whence the name bubonic.

Trapping and testing rodents for plague in a country in order to estimate the levels of infection in wildlife is an example of this scenario [ 57].