Not a place to go visit these days - from the UK Telegraph:
Yosemite campground shut because of plague-infected squirrels
A second Yosemite National Park campground will be shut down for five days after a pair of dead squirrels were found to be infected with the plague, park and California public health officials said on Friday.
The closure of Tuolumne Meadows Campground comes a week after a child who camped elsewhere in Yosemite, one of America's top tourist destinations, was taken to hospital with the disease.
The case marked the first time a human was known to be infected with the centuries-old scourge, which is carried by rodents and the fleas that live on them, in California since 2006.
A bit more:
The last reported cases of human plague in California occurred in 2005 and 2006 in Mono, Los Angeles and Kern counties, the health department said.
Two people have succumbed to plague this year in Colorado, according to health officials there.
In 2012, another disease carried by rodents, called hantavirus, sickened nine people, killing three of them. Most of those cases were linked to dust from mouse droppings in tent cabins at Yosemite's Curry Village.
Fortunately, the plague responds very well to standard antibiotics. We didn't have those (or basic concepts of sanitation) in the Middle Ages so the plague was something to be greatly feared. Hantavirus is a different beast entirely - this is a deadly disease and there is no known cure.
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