Plague vaccine bait -- look who's coming to dinner

(Morris Animal Foundation) Morris Animal Foundation-funded researchers suspected and have now confirmed that plague vaccine bait, designed to protect prairie dogs and assist with recovery efforts of the black-footed ferret, is readily consumed by thousands of small rodents each year but with no apparent ill effect. Results were recently published in the journal EcoHealth.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news