Bubonic Plague In Colorado!

Add caption

A squirrel in a Colorado has tested positive for bubonic plague.  The rodent was found in Morrison Colorado. The county's health officials said in a statement that the squirrel was the first case of plague in the county.

Bubonic plague is one of three forms of the infectious disease caused by the Yersinia pestis bacteria. If left untreated, the bubonic plague, which is typically transmitted from animals to humans by fleas, has a fatality rate of 30 percent to 60 percent.  This disease caused the Black Death and killed some 50 million people in the 14th century.

This report comes on the heals of a human case reported in China