Some Sylvatic Plague Vaccine Partners

Over 30 organizations and agencies are testing a USGS-developed oral vaccine to prevent the spread of plague in prairie dogs. If successful, the sylvatic plague vaccine could help protect endangered black-footed ferrets in the western U.S. because the ferrets rely on prairie dogs for food.

Here, a group of SPV partners (USGS, U.S. National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks) gathers at a test site in Wind Cave National Park.