"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
Globalization: Sharing germs and defenses, my Tech Central Station column on the mystery pneumonia.
UPDATE: The latest count of suspected and probable cases is 306 cases worldwide with 10 deaths.
UPDATE II: And here's the tally of suspected and probable US cases. (13 cases, no deaths.) It's important to realize that these suspected cases aren't necessarily proven cases. Sometimes, people are dropped from the tally when a different source, such as bacterial pneumonia, is identified. posted by Sydney on
3/21/2003 08:15:00 AM
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