It's known as an incretin mimetic and is a synthetic version of a compound found in the venom of a Gila monster, a lizard in the southwestern United States.

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From there we made the sojourn west, to explore the red rocks of the southwestern United States from a base in Santa Fe, and later to visit the storied national parks in Utah, Montana and Wyoming.

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With 1, 641 stores in the Western, Southwestern, Rocky Mountain, and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States and in western Canada, Safeway is one of the largest food and drug retailers in North America.

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Each year, roughly 10 to 20 people in the United States develop plague from flea or rodent bites, mostly from infected prairie dogs in rural southwestern areas, the NIH says.

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