Plague continues to affect US wildlife because the bacterium Yersinia pestis cycles naturally among wild rodents and their fleas in the western states, causing periodic outbreaks that kill animals like prairie dogs and chipmunks; while rare in humans, eradication is impossible due to these persistent animal reservoirs.
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