Well, it's pretty much best practice to stay away from all wild rodents ... and racoons, too. 

It's not like the Bubonic Plague has been eradicated, it's not unheard of in developing countries and there are still cases popping up in the US and other civilized locations.  It's simply that it's largely treatable now.  

If the two people who died were infected because of tainted tissue or fluid then that's kind of good news and hopefully means no plague-carrying fleas were involved.  The danger would be if they transmitted the plague to others via breathing on them--that's Pneumonic plague and it's worse than Bubonic.  The close quarters of an airplane make that more possible, unfortunately, which is one of the worst things about air travel.  

Still, a quarantine should solve this.  People acting like the Black Death is returning are being silly.

My thoughts and prayers go out to the innocents on the plane and airport.

There are cases of Bubonic/Pneumonic plague every year.  Actual outbreaks are usually in Africa, though, so it doesn't make many headlines.  There were thousands of confirmed cases during a large outbreak in Madagascar a few years ago but most people have no idea.

In this case, unless it's announced that carriers of the Pneumonic plague have broken quarantine, then it sounds like everything is under control.  As it's treatable with modern antibiotics, it's not nearly as big a concern to the civilized world as it once was.

Welp, you say this may not be a big deal, but I'm headed to the underground bunker just in case. Good luck everybody.

What does the poll mean?

What the fuck? Lol. 

Yeah, I realize there has been an avatar change and that I shouldn't have bothered asking the question.  I'll pay better attention next time.  Edgy.

As an organism, the plague's purpose isn't to kill people, but to survive. It's doing a good job of that as it has a large reservoir of animal hosts in which to live.

No. The conditions required for bubonic plague to become epidemic don't really exist in modern industrialized nations. It already occurs sporadically around the world and sometimes causes minor epidemics in places like Madagascar but it will never again sweep the world like it did with the Black Death. Nowadays it's completely treatable with antibiotics.

You should consider that of all the great epidemic diseases of the past, only smallpox has been completely eradicated, the others, including the plague, started being kept under control, with foci spreading less and less, first with better urban and personal hygiene, then, later, with scientific progress (greatest progress came not only from improvements of medicine, but also from widespread replacement of open sewers with buried ones, that weren't a novelty, ancient Romans and other ancient civilisations built them, but in the Middle Ages there had been a regression in hygiene in most parts of Europe, but also Marseille soap and the adoption of cotton, allowing to wash clothes more frequently, helped a lot, like other forms of prevention).

I voted succes,it is sadly good in what it does for itself to keep surviving amongst humanity for so long.