Chapter 4 The Global War Against the Rat

It is almost impossible to find a plague-related news item today that is not accompanied by an image of a rat. The best-known carriers of zoonotic diseases, rats are so closely identified with plague that research articles about the role of other mammals in the spread or maintenance of the disease a...

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Main Author: Lynteris, Christos (auth)
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Language:English
Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2022
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