Bubonic?
Yep, except the “bring out yer dead” cart is a ‘98 F150.
In humans, yes, that’s one possible outcome.
The thing to focus on is that the pathogen is the same, aka “Y. Pestis.” In rodents, it doesn’t present the same symptoms as it does in humans, but it is the same bacteria as what causes the bubonic plague in humans.
In central Nevada, we would sometimes see the population of ground squirrels (Belding’s ground squirrels, specifically) crash in a period of months.