虽然在美国的绝大多数人间鼠疫病例是在获得感染的同一地理区域被诊断的,但是有些鼠疫受害者或者是在潜伏期或者是在患病时旅行到他们被感染的州以外的地方。由于这些人可能旅行到那些不会自然发生鼠疫的地方,因此在诊断时可能不会考虑到鼠疫,从而对患者以及对其接触的人们造成潜在危险。本文描述了一例在1980年发生的鼠疫病例并说明了一些在处理旅游者鼠疫中的一些问题。 While the vast majority of human plague cases in the United States are diagnosed in the same geographical area as the infected, some plague victims either travel to places outside of their infected state either during the incubation period or when ill. Because these people may travel to places where plague does not occur naturally, the plague may not be taken into account at the time of diagnosis, posing a potential hazard to the patient and the people who are exposed to it. This article describes a case of plague that occurred in 1980 and illustrates some of the problems in handling travelers’ plague.