Can I catch plague from a prairie dog?
Although you can’t catch your cat’s sniffles, your pet can give you the plague. We’re talking Black Death-style bubonic plague. But kitty isn’t evil — it’s just a passive carrier, or vector, of disease like many other animals. HIV passed to humans through chimpanzees and severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, started in China from infected badgers and palm civets. But how could your cat catch the plague? If you live in Arizona, New Mexico or Colorado — states which historically have the highest incidence of bubonic plague in the United States — your cat could possibl
