Black Death aside, we know surprisingly little about rodents and disease

Mongabay
Aug 9, 2021, 4:28 pm389 pts
Rodents live among us, but we rarely see them. Nondescript, tiny, and often nocturnal, they slip through the cracks of society, largely unnoticed. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought the connection between animals and human diseases into the limelight, and because they are the most plentiful and…

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