"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
CDC Update: Only 75 members of the public attended the CDC public forum on smallpox vaccine in San Francisco Thursday night. It sounds like none of them wanted the vaccine to be offered, but according to the report, it also sounds like the CDC panel has already made up its mind:
"Five doctors advising the federal government on its smallpox vaccination policy appear unanimous in their opposition to a mass inoculation of all Americans, arguing the chances of a terrorist smallpox attack are remote and the vaccine is harmful to many people."
I'm still mystified by this attitude that the chance of an attack is small. That's the trouble with terrorism and war in general, attacks are meant to be a surprise, not a certainty. posted by Sydney on
6/08/2002 07:29:00 AM
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