"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
Mosquito Menace: This is shaping up to be the summer of the mosquito. Another case of West Nile virus has cropped up after a blood transfusion (but the patient also says she had a lot of mosquito bites), and the virus might now be in California. (It was always known that it would one day get there, it was just not certain how long it would take). More disturbing, there were two recent malaria cases in Virginia. (There are usually one or two cases of locally acquired malaria a year in the United States.) While the role of pesticides in controlling mosquitoes may be controversial, the role of standing water is not. Could it be that we’re beginning to reap the human costs of the wetlands protection program?
