U.S. cases of plague are usually in the desert Southwest. Numbers go up during drought, when infected mice and jerboa and stuff move into suburbs looking for irrigation. A few people die from time to time because they didn’t know what they had until too late.
There’s no indication of its being transmitted into urban populations, even in its endemic areas, at this time.
Well that’s nice to know. I still wouldn’t go to LA or Baltimore if Nasty Pelosi and Cummings paid for the trips. As a kid I spent time shooting rats. I bet the locals in either location wouldn’t appreciate that. We’ll see if the poem comes back, history has a way of repeating itself.