"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
SARS and Civets: China now has a third possible SARS case, despite the culling of civet cats. It isn't as widespread as it was last year at this time, though, probably because they're keeping their eyes open for cases. But their efforts to eliminate the believed source of the virus aren't going so well, largely due to artful civet farmers like this one:
When the cull was announced, because of a study in Hong Kong that found the coronavirus believed to cause Sars in civet samples, he went further underground, operating under the title 'Special Vegetable Farm'.
