Matt Frye, Community IPM Extension Educator at Cornell University New York State IPM Program, and his research team have been collecting rodents throughout New York City to determine if they carry a flea species capable of transmitting plague pathogens. Frye wrote about these experiences in "Tracking Troublesome Rodents," a feature in the soon-to-be-published Augsut issue of PCT magazine.
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