[DakotaGator]

People tend to think of The Plague as horrifying but just something from the Middle Ages. Not so. It is still around waiting to explode.

While serving in the Navy I received the plague immunization series several times. This was due to areas of the world I had a good chance of finding myself in on “official business”.

Nothing like possible exposure to the plague to bring things into focus ;-)

[Myrddin]

My wife picked up Yersinia pestis minor from her Red Tailed hawk. She and the bird were successfully treated with antibiotics. It's one of the possible hazards of being a falconer.

[stormer]

Right you are. I knew a man who died of the plague he picked up rabbit hunting in eastern Oregon in the early 80s. The doctors didn't figure out what he had until it was too late.

[PUGACHEV]

There has been speculation that the Black Death was not caused by the Bubonic Plague, but by some unidentified type of hemorrhagic fever, like Ebola. One argument in favor of that theory is that the supposed vector of Bubonic Plague, rats and their fleas, could not travel fast enough to account for the reported spread of the Black Death, whereas hemorrhagic fever, spread by direct contact from one infected person to another, could.

[bannie]

In fact, it lives in the mountains between Bakersfield and the beach.