Show do not handle wild rodents bacillus peso the dis disease bease ger germ which cau ws es bubonic plague ua in hunu aumau u beings and plague in rodents has been isolated from material taken taken from 2 9 round ground squirrels found one half mile east cast of mor morgan ii utan ae according cording to information released by dr J L jones jolles state ui health commissioner the material wa taken in a routine survey pirvey b which is now in progress by the tha aid of a mobile laboratory operated by the state board bloard of health ur dr 0 R eskey medical officer in charge of plague measures at the united states public health service laboratory at san francisco the dis disease east germs gerins from the material sent to him by he be division of public health laboratories utah state board of health dr jones said this finding should give no cause for alarm but should serve as a warning to utah residents not to handle bundle wild rodents the disease usually Is transmitted to human beings through the thel bite hite of a flea from an all infected rodent bubonic plague ein can not dot be transmitted from one human I 1 eing to another although Il though pneumonic plague can the survey which discovered this further evidence of plague is a continuation of the survey which began last summer with the lid iid of the united states public health service following the discovery of bubonic le plague in rodents and fleas flea in beaver sevier and garfield counties the existence of nut bubonic ionic plague in ut utah a h was first discovered in ju june ne CS when a small boy while playing in ii bea beaver ver canyon was bitten by a captured ground squirrel and subsequently quel itly developed bubonic plague indications of plague were first dis covered in morgan county early in august A recheck re check of this area within the last week confirmed positive rp |