[granite]

The last person to die from the plague in the U.S. was here.
I have been successful in dispatching all the ground squirrels, they really pissed me off when they got into the garden.

[Myrddin]

My wife is a master falconer. On one of her hunting trips, her Red Tail took a ground squirrel. It was infected with plague. She and the bird both needed treatment. Fortunately it wasn't a hot strain and was treatable.