The History of Plague

In the early 1900s, plague tended to pop up in port towns when plague infected rats disembarked from ships and their fleas headed into town for a little barfing fun. After about the 1920s, plague ceased to be a port city disease in the US and instead became one of incidental contact with dead or infected animals. One boy from New Mexico died after skinning a dead coyote he came across. Same for another, but this time it was a squirrel instead of a coyote. Another with a rabbit. They have very high bacterial loads.