Arizona resident dies from the plague (independent.co.uk)

Which plague?

I recall being on a road trip and was at the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains; was getting ready to camp at a random camp site and noticed a sign warning or squirrels that carry bubonic plague via fleas… Scary..

There's a vaccine, but it's old and not recommended for the general population.[1]

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00041848.htm

I knew someone (in the U.S.) who contracted the plague along with his wife. He survived but his wife did not.

According to him, about one person dies each year from it.

In general, how do you get exposed to it? Hiking? Do people often get that close to prairie dogs? Hiking in Utah?

What improvements do we have to survive against the plague compared to in the past? I'm curious to understand the difference

I can find no news outlet reporting the fact claimed in the headline, that the person died less than 24 hours after showing symptoms.

What is reported, in this article and many others, is that the person arrived at the hospital and died there the same day. There is no mention in any article I have read that the symptoms began less than 24 hours before the death.

So it begins.

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In China, particularly in Tibet and Qinghai, plague still occasionally occurs, because a wild animal, the Himalayan marmots carry it and people may get plague from them. After the CCP took over Tibet, antibotics were gradually used to cure the plague. Recent years, more people are traveling to Tibet by the newly built highways, and those people from the cities only find the marmots cute and sometimes touch them and get the disease. Local governments put large warning signs along the road to alert people about this, and hospitals and clinics in nearby towns are always prepared to cure some stupid tourists. Still, it is a potential threat, especially for now because now you can drive home in Shanghai with a cute marmot from infected region for only a few days, not knowing what comes home with you.