Sentence examples for source of plague from inspiring English sources

R. flavipectus, belonging to the order Rodentia, family Muridae, has been reported to be the main animal host and infectious source of plague in the commensal rodent plague foci in this region [ 19] and has been shown in surveillance data to be the dominant small mammal in Dehong prefecture, accounting for about 74% of small mammals captured [ 20], similar to the 80% in the current study.

Endemic plague foci result from circulation of the plague bacillus in its rodent reservoir, the source of human plague cases (1 ).

The source of bubonic plague is the bacillus Yersinia pestis, named for a French bacteriologist, Alexandre Yersin, who identified it during a later outbreak, in China and India, in the eighteen-nineties.

The most common source of human plague in Mongolia is contact with and consumption of the marmot (Marmota sibirica) (1 ).

Domestic cats are a major source of human plague infections in the United States (5 ), putting veterinary workers and pet owners at risk for Y. pestis infections.

Ten infected lice are sufficient for plague transmission (4 ), and our observation that one third of infected lice remained alive 3 days after infection indicates that an index plague patient carrying as few as 30 body lice could be a source for plague up to 3 days after dying.

In this adaptation of Max Brooks's cult novel, Brad Pitt plays an ex-UN investigator sent to seek out the source of an undead plague that has ravaged the Earth, causing the warm-blooded to scuttle to sea, or flee to the remote wilds of Nova Scotia.

So far, however, enforced storyline changes have been of a relatively limited nature: the big budget Brad Pitt zombie flick World War Z changed a line in which the source of a zombie plague was identified as Chinese, while Asian villains in films such as Olympus Has Fallen and Red Dawn are increasingly clearly identified as North Korean.

Meanwhile, the source of the Justinian Plague has long been disputed.

This time, officials identified Tonawanda Coke as the main source of the benzene plaguing the community.

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