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.
County health officials Tuesday finally busted the myth surrounding the Yersinia pestis scare, saying they haven’t seen a single case of the ancient killer.
“Madera County Department of Public Health has not identified any confirmed cases,” the department told YourCentralValley.com, although…
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