Calif. county shoots down rumors of bubonic plague case after girl bitten by flea
Metro Calif. county shoots down rumors of bubonic plague case after girl bitten by flea By Sheetal Banchariya Published Aug. Add The California Post on Google 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.
- ▪Metro Calif. county shoots down rumors of bubonic plague case after girl bitten by flea By Sheetal Banchariya Published Aug.
- ▪Add The California Post on Google 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.
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| Publication time | Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:47:12 -0400 |
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