I didn't know the Bubonic Plague was still around.

scary!

Anthrax also occurs naturally with animals as well.
If I remember right, rats and other vermin were associated with the "Black Death" plagues of the mid-fourteenth century.

Yes, I think so, The Real Napster. If memory serves me correctly it's endemic to the marmots (a type of prairie dog) in Mongolia. I stand to be corrected.