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Published online 16 September 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050912-13
Corrected online: 19 September 2005

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Lab loses trio of plague mice

Risk to public is thought negligible.

Three mice infected with the bacteria that cause bubonic plague have gone missing from a laboratory in Newark, New Jersey. Authorities have launched a search for the animals and an investigation into how they might have escaped.

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