"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
Frozen Demon:The New York Times Book Review had an excellent review of The Demon in the Freezer', the third in Richard Preston's "Dark Biology" trilogy. The first was the non-fiction Hot Zone about Ebola virus, and the second was a novel, The Cobra Event about manufactured infectious agents. This one is, unfortunately, nonfiction, and it's about the smallpox threat. The closing statement from both the review and the book is especially poignant, and true:
''All I knew was that the dream of total Eradication had failed. . . . We could eradicate smallpox from nature, but we could not uproot the virus from the human heart.'' posted by Sydney on
11/11/2002 07:55:00 AM
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