You’re of course absolutely correct. When I moved to Colorado about 10 years ago, and first read the Public Health warning about the Plague being found in Prairie Dogs only blocks from our home I thought it was, at first, a joke, and then thought it may just be some “scare tactics” or something (lots of fighting going on at the time about these prairie dogs habitats and such...). Anyway, when I realized they weren’t joking, or being sensationalists it was quite a shock. I had had no CLUE that this disease is still a factor for humanity - all it takes is one idiot getting bitten by a rat, or prairie dog, etc... for it to become a BIG problem.
Looks like Al Qaeda has found this out the hard way (not that I’m shedding tears for THEM). However, this could be a VERY big problem because if these folks were exposed and then “ran away” they only brought the disease to another population and have exposed them...
I don’t want to give them ideas, but combining this with a suicide attack could be a VERY bad thing — like a human biological weapon, really...
bttt
I don’t think you can catch the plague from a bite from the infected rodent. It is typically spread by being bitten by a flea that has sucked the infected blood from a host organism.
I’m not sure what happened with the islamofascists, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they were trying to contaminate carriers (fleas) to be deployed in a major city.