"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
Well At Least They're Doing Something: The CDC is looking for medical labs in the nation that test for chickenpox. The theory is that an initial smallpox case would resemble chickenpox. A physician might order a test to confirm chickenpox, and the CDC wants to send instructions to the labs to be on the alert for smallpox, too. The reality is, not too many people test for chickenpox. In the absence of smallpox, it's hard to confuse it with anything else. posted by Sydney on
7/27/2002 10:51:00 AM
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