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From a date prior to 1967, this historic photograph, depicted three scientists extracting a blood specimen from a rabbit, during a plague investigation. Plague is caused by the bacterium, Yersinia pestis, and is transmitted from rodent to rodent, by infected fleas. At the time, these men were staff members at the former San Francisco, California, Public Health Service, Communicable Disease Center, Plague Laboratory.
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