scary virus epidemics

[RYBICKI, ED]

> > By the way, nothing we might try to create or accidentally turn 
loose
> > from a lab can beat the reservoir of disease natures been 
hiding.
> > 
> > fight the hype
> > PJ Jardine
> 
> Whole-hearted agreement. I doubt that we'll ever create a test 
tube
> scenario that can compete in complexity with any natural host.

Well said all round!!  I remember Mr Rotavirus (Malcolm McCrae) 
saying at a Congress here that he works on a virus that kills more 
people than any other....and everyone always guessed wrong - babies 
in the Third World don't come into First World thinking as people, 
you see.

But then, people in NY, NY asked for gas masks when CNN was showing 
Saddam bombarding Israel...no sense of reality.
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