A second victim has been diagnosed with the plague state officials say, after visiting Yosemite National Park. Veterinary epidemiologist of the National Forest Service, Danielle Buttke said there were no deceased rodents in the areas visited by the Lindquist’s, although the agency is still conducting environmental investigations of all the park’s areas.

They state that the individual had visited Yosemite National Park prior to becoming ill. The patient has been hospitalized and treated with antibiotics and was expected to be released soon.

Along with the two cases of plague in humans, officials have also confirmed seven cases of plagues in dogs and cats in Bernalillo, Santa Fe and Torrance Counties. [Pictures of a Killer: A Plague Gallery]. The federal Centers for Disease Control is testing the person. Rodents in California, as well as those in other Western states, are known to carry the fleas that can transmit plague. From then to 2012, more than 1,000 confirmed or probable human plague cases occurred across the nation, but there has never been a recorded case of human plague in Georgia.

Factors such as the amount of interaction between people and rodents (for example, people feeding the animals, or staying in cabins built in a new area), and the adventurousness of rodents, as they make their way into campgrounds, could affect people’s risk of plague.

The patient was released from the hospital Tuesday night and is doing “very well”, Georgia Department of Public Health spokeswoman Nancy Nydam told The Huffington Post.

Avoid walking or camping near rodent burrows.

In addition, warmer temperatures are favorable for flea activity, and if there is an increase in the flea population, the insects may be looking for more hosts, Chomel said.

Humans usually get plague after being bitten by a rodent flea that is carrying the plague bacterium or by handling an animal infected with plague.

Plague is an infectious bacterial disease that is carried by squirrels, chipmunks and other wild rodents and their fleas.

Despite the recent increase in plague in California, the number of plague cases in humans seen so far in the United States this year is not out of the norm.

Drought, famine, and disease didn’t stop earlier settlers and it doesn’t seem to have much of an effect on weekend warriors.

Medicine has come a long way since the Black Death during the Middle Ages, with antibiotics and antimicrobial medicines among the tools to aid those with the plague, CNN reported.