1. Resources

Please review information in Section 2 for accessing ProMED-mail.

Yersinia pestis or plague is endemic in the west, regularly producing outbreaks in prairie dog populations. This in turn effects the black footed ferrets both from a food supply standpoint and producing disease in the ferrets themselves. This disease is also a zoonosis, producing disease in people every year.

USF and WS on Black-footed Ferret. http://endangered.fws.gov/i/a07.html

State of Colorado Grassland Species and Conservation - Black-tailed Prairie Dog. http://wildlife.state.co.us/species_cons/PrairieDog/

As Goes the Prairie Dog, So Goes the Ferret. http://endangered.fws.gov/esb/96/ferret.html. U..S. Fish and Wildlife Service Endangered Species Bulletin. Nov/Dec 1996 Vol. XXI No. 6.

http://endangered.fws.gov/esb/96/ferret.html. 20 Nov 1999. ProMED-mail. http://www/isid.org

Plague, mule deer - USA (MT). 11 Sep 2003. ProMED-mail. http://www/isid.org

Plague, squirrel, cat - USA (California): alert. 29 Aug 2002. ProMED-mail. http://www/isid.org

Plague, squirrels - USA (CO). 21 Oct 2004. ProMED-mail. http://www/isid.org

Plague, squirrels - USA (CO). 22 Oct 2004. ProMED-mail. http://www/isid.org

Plague, pet prairie dogs - USA (Texas). 9 Jul 1998. ProMED-mail. http://www/isid.org

Plague, ferret reintroduction - USA (Montana). 3 Oct 2000. ProMED-mail. http://www/isid.org

Plague, prairie dogs, suspected - USA (Colorado). 5 May 2002. ProMED-mail. http://www/isid.org

Plague, prairie dogs - USA (CO): alert. 9 Aug 2003. ProMED-mail. http://www/isid.org

Plague, prairie dogs - USA (CO): alert. 13 Aug 2003. ProMED-mail. http://www/isid.org

CDC on Plague. http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/plague/

National Wildlife Health Center on Plague. http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/whats_new/fact_sheet/fact_plague.pdf

2. ProMED-mail Citations

ProMED - Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases - is an Internet-based reporting system dedicated to rapid global dissemination of information on outbreaks of infectious diseases and acute exposures to toxins that affect human health, including those in animals and in plants grown for food or animal feed. A team of expert human, plant, and animal disease moderators screen, review, and investigate reports before posting to the network. ProMED-mail is open to all sources and free of political constraints. Sources of information include media reports, official reports, online summaries, local observers, and others. A central purpose of ProMED-mail is to promote communication amongst the international infectious disease community, including scientists, physicians, epidemiologists, public health professionals, and others interested in infectious diseases on a global scale.