"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
More Mystery Fever: British officials are speculating that the mystery fever infecting their troops in Afghanistan may be typhoid. When I first heard the story I wondered if they were coming down with the Greek mystery virus from a few weeks ago, but the symptoms don’t sound the same. I’m surprised that British troops would come down with typhoid. Typhoid is transmitted from contaminated food and water. I thought modern military hygiene was good enough to keep such things at bay. I also thought that soldiers were immunized against it before being sent overseas, but I could be wrong. posted by Sydney on
5/16/2002 07:29:00 AM
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