"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
Other West Nile News: The link between West Nile and blood transfusions begins to look plausible, and the Califronia case is confirmed. As more cases of the virus are documented, the news frenzy is reaching new heights. But the wildlife pathologist who first identified the virus in New York in 1999 reminds us that this sort of outbreak is really no surprise:
"I predicted it would be about four years," he said, noting that the disease never really went away after the 1999 outbreak but has been slowly spreading and incubating every summer.
By next year we’ll be so blase about this it won’t even be an issue, aside from screening the blood supply and testing for it in puzzling cases of critical illness. posted by Sydney on
9/14/2002 08:40:00 AM
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