[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Health officials have urged the public to stay away from wild animals
and said workers had tried to exterminate rats and fleas over a 200-acre area around where the patient lives.

The pneumonic strain can prove fatal in 24 to 72 hours
and is the 'most virulent form' of the disease according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).
It infects the lungs, making the disease airborne and much easier to transfer.

The bubonic form is less dangerous.
However, it is famous for causing the Black Death
which killed around a third of all European people in the Medieval era.

H/T to greeneyes

[rktman]

No doubt melting tundra is the source due to grrrrrrreta’s fave, CLIMAGEDDON!

[Redcitizen]

Bring out your dead ping.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Infectious Disease Ping - China ( pneumonic strain plague, and bubonic plague)

Both strains of plague now found in China.
Add to that the pork virus infection juvenile pork production,
the main source of protein production in China is at risk.

[Meatspace]

Just in time for the Black Plague Black Friday Sale.

[discostu]

4 out of what 1.3 billion? Not that worried. Plague never got wiped out, people like to believe it was, but it wasn’t. Plague zones are everywhere, including right here in America.

[bgill]

One will hop a plane to the US in 3, 2...

[Vaquero]

4 people out of a billion for a curable disease (via antibiotics)

It happens in the American desert every year.