塔什库尔干县山地历来被国内鼠防专家认为：可能存在鼠疫自然疫源地。虽经鼠防专业人员多次对该县山地进行系统的调查，未获得有鼠疫病流行的任何迹象和线索。为了进一步证实该县山地啮齿动物间是否有鼠疫病流行，我们于1997年7月2日～8月2日，又一次对该区的旱獭和牧民饲养的 Taschurgan County Mountain has always been domestic rat prevention experts believe that there may be a plague natural foci. Although rodents and defense professionals conducted systematic surveys on the mountainous areas of the county many times, they did not get any signs and clues about the plague epidemic. In order to further confirm whether there is a plague epidemic among the mountain rodents in the county, we re-fed the marmots and pastoralists from July 2 to August 2, 1997