"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Bioterror Bill Passes: The House passed a bioterror bill yesterday, now it's on to the Senate. The bill gives more money to the CDC to revamp their labs, stockpile drugs, and vaccines and "contain" infectious diseases. It would also:
".... provide extensive new training and tools for local public health authorities, the "first responders" to an attack with anthrax, smallpox or other lethal agents. Hospitals also would get help preparing for an emergency surge of critically ill patients"
I just hope those local public health authorities use the money for bioterror and not to bolster their pet projects, like fighting obesity and urban sprawl.
