Calif. county shoots down rumors of bubonic plague case after girl bitten by flea

Fuente: New York Post

Panicked fears over a potentially deadly bubonic plague case near Fresno recently erupted — but it turns out the victim was just suffering from a run-of-the-mill flea bite. The internet was sent into a frenzy over now-deleted posts about a young girl contracting the Black Death from a nasty bite at Bass Lake in the Sierra National Forest of Madera County. County health officials Tuesday finally busted the myth surrounding the Yersinia pestis scare, saying they haven’t seen a single case of the ancient killer.