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Flea Poop and Opossums Are Causing a Typhus Outbreak in L.A.

NOT-SO-AWESOME POSSUM

But how do fleas get on opossums in the first place? We still don’t know.

Tanya Basu
Tanya Basu 

Senior Editor, Science

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Tanya Basu

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Senior Editor, Science

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