Dog suspected source of China plague: state media - Yahoo! News
The dog ate the rodent and when the owner buried the dog, he was bitten by fleas from which he contracted the pneumonic plague.
Altogether now...
I know an old woman who swallowed a fly
I don't know why she swallowed a fly....
Perhaps she'll die
i know an old woman who swallowed a spider
That wiggled and Jiggled and tickled inside her
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly
I don't know why she swallowed the fly
Perhaps she'll get Morgellons