Steve Pope wrote:

> I think the larger issue here is that Americans often tolerate
> public health problems that would cause widespread alarm elsewhere
> in the world. In the UK diseases like rabies and plague have
> been eradicated; not so in the US.

Which makes us the stronger race.

Bubonic plague has not been eradicated anywhere. The U.S. comprises
less than 1% of all reported cases of plague worldwide.

-sw