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Candy  --

It was the pneumonic plague in India, '94, not the bubonic.  Also, last I
heard, even the pneumonic plague had not been completely verified.  

The plague to which you referred, broke out in a small village in India--not 
across the wholcontinent, as you implied.  The reason it broke out in that 
village wathat the villagers had no doctor and no medicines, an no 
transportatioto either.  It was 25-40 miles to the nearest larger village.  
Also, their life-beliefs precluded them from seeking western-style medicines 
when they came down with illnesses.  All told, only 25 or so died from the
supposed pneumonic plague in that village and surrounding areas, and
the causes of the spread were unsanitary conditions and the lack of
medicines.  (Tetracycline easily controlled the disease when it was
available in the early stages of the disease.)

Also, I was travelling in India at the time the supposed pneumonic plague 
broke out, and I saw no airline refuspassage to Indian travellers, regardless 
of the airline on whichIwas travelling.  In many cases, I was one of six or 
less non-Indian passengers on the airlines.

The hysteria and terror upon which many people seem to thrive is neither
scientific nor appropriate to this group.

                   - Tara K. Harper

    /  Even a thought    /
    /   Even a possibility can shatter us and transform us    /
    /                        - Nietzsche     /