In delightful news to hear on a Friday, the Black Death has made a rather unwelcome return to the world, with a parts of a national park in California shut down after they found a squirrel infected with the plague, according to the BBC. Yes, the actual plague that killed 25 million people back in the Middle Ages. Wonderful.
Angeles National Forest was forced to evacuate all the happy campers and visitors when they caught a squirrel carrying the plague in a routine check. Officials denied that any humans had been bitten or encountered the plague, which is carried by fleas and transmitted through their bites, and stressed that they only found one squirrel who carried it and as the squirrel was dead, they couldn't confirm if the plague killed it or if it was a natural death.
Anyone else getting a horrible zombie apocalypse vibe off this? What if the plague mutates? What if the fleas carrying it swell to billions in number and start hopping around the world? What if the squirrel comes back to life as a zombie squirrel and brings about the end of civilisation??
Something to ponder over the weekend.
