Overview
- El Dorado County says the patient is under medical care and recovering at home, with the person's identity withheld.
- Health authorities believe the exposure occurred while camping in the area, and an investigation is underway.
- This is the county’s first reported human case since 2020, with the CDC noting an average of about seven U.S. cases each year.
- State and local monitoring identified 41 rodents with evidence of exposure from 2021–2024 and four plague-positive rodents in 2025, all in the Tahoe Basin.
- Agencies advise avoiding contact with rodents, keeping pets leashed and on flea control, and using DEET, noting recent detections that include a fatal human case in Arizona and a plague-positive cat in Colorado.