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| I'm Here To Kill You And Your Entire Family |
If you ever wondered how the world will end, you might find it somewhat comforting that it will have nothing to do with a Rapture (yay, Jeebus still loves you!) but, instead, come in the guise of a bunch of Southern California squirrels who have managed to bring about The Black Plague 2.0.
Apparently the adorable rodents, who have very little fear of humans, have decided to forgo the Zombie Apocalypse and simply take out each and every one of us through the complete decimation of our immune system (just so you understand this, the Black Plague/Death managed to kill over 25 MILLION PEOPLE so you might want to load up on loads of Airborne or whatever it is you take when you want to pretend that over-the-counter/holistic medicine helps).
Think I'm kidding?
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Authorities have evacuated and shut down a section of a national forest outside Los Angeles for at least a week after a ground squirrel was found there infected with the plague, county public health officials said on Thursday.
The squirrel tested positive for plague after it was trapped in the Angeles National Forest during "routine surveillance activities," the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health said in a written health advisory.
Health officials said that as a precaution, visitors were ordered to leave three campgrounds and a recreation area of the Angeles National Forest, which encompasses some 655,000 acres in the San Gabriel Mountains just north of metropolitan Los Angeles.
Plague, known as the "Black Death" when it was blamed for killing some 25 million Europeans during the Middle Ages, is a bacterial infection that can be transmitted to humans through the bites of infected fleas.
A health department spokesman said no people were believed to have been infected.
No people were believed to have been infected...yet.
Yeah, we're all going to die from Killer Squirrels.
Wonderful.
Source: Boing Boing