Word: voles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Awareness of rodent cycles also helps prevent diseases among human beings. In Norway, for example, lemming invasions are accompanied by outbreaks of "lemming fever"-a form of tularemia. Vole outbreaks in India stimulate the dread bubonic plague; in Central Europe, food poisoning ("ptomaine poisoning"); in Africa, a fever of men and sheep...