Medical examiners say the cause of death for all of the nearly 300 residents of the small world was a form of the black plaque which is carried by rodents such as rats and mice. Public Health officials and workers from the CDC are hopefull that they can aphrehend the rodent responsible before he can spread the disease to other areas of the park like Toon Town or FantasyLand. The strain of plague apparently is not strong enough to afflict full size humans.

Llyod Rehnmark the cleaning man who maintains the Small World said "I feel lucky to be alive. But it's tragic what happened to all my little friends. Just yesterday they were singing their hearts out." Rehnmark said he thought the departed diminutive denizens of the tiniest place on earth would appreciate the way death came for one and all at once without regard to race. For those who called the Small World home, yesterday proved it was indeed "a world of tears, a world of hopes and a world of fears."

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