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Body lice may be bigger plague spreaders than previously thought - EurekAlert
<p>A new laboratory study suggests that human body lice are more efficient at transmitting <em>Yersinia pestis,</em> the bacterium that causes plague, than previously thought, supporting the possibility that they may have contributed to past pandemics. David Bland and colleagues at the United States’ National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases present these findings in the open-access journal <em>PLOS Biology</em> on May 21<sup>st</sup>.</p>
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