The plague—aka the Black Death, aka the Great Pestilence—is rarely contracted today, yet it recently infected a South Lake ...

The plague, aka the Black Death, made a reappearance in California last week after it infected a South Lake Tahoe resident.

In El Dorado County alone, wildlife surveillance between 2021 and 2025 detected evidence of plague in at least 45 squirrels and chipmunks in the Lake Tahoe Basin. These animals can carry the bacteria ...