Not exact matches
The researchers found that the virus was almost certainly inadvertently
transmitted to the gibbons
from rodents by medical researchers working on human diseases such as malaria and dengue fever.
* Two small lab vials of Yersinia pestis, the cause of plague, is an acute bacterial infection
transmitted to humans and some domestic animals by fleas that come
from infected
rodents.
The disease is mainly
transmitted from the bite of infected fleas carried by
rodents.
Fleas are also capable of
transmitting bubonic plague
from rodent to
rodent as well as
from rodent to human.