[5th MEB]

Just about every ground squirrel, chipmunk, pack rat, wood rat, white footed field mouse, every type of rabbit, and pika in the state of California is a potential carrier of plague fleas.
Lots of campgrounds and hunting areas have been posted for plague, and we occasionally have a case of active plague reported to the health department.

[familyop]

That’s bad! On the Colorado Rockies at high elevations, only the prairie dogs and striped ground squirrels are carrying it as far as I know. But they’ve overpopulated so much, they transmit it without fleas.