The Black Plague, Black Death, reportedly has been discovered in fleas in Flagstaff, Az.

According to public health officials, the fleas are from prairie dog burrows along a popular Arizona hiking spot. Apparently there has been a rash of prairie dog deaths in Picture Canyon. Officials from Coconino County Public Health Services District were disinfecting the prairie dog burrows when the fleas were discovered.

According to the World Health Organization, plague is still contracted by as many as 2,000 people a year.

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