From: "George Z. Bush" am
Date: 12/25/2003 8:47 AM Central Standard Time
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Steve Hix wrote:
In article

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Orval Fairbairn wrote:

In article ,
noname wrote:

I heard there is a mad cow in Washington. Is it GWB or who?


It is already pandemic in:

Dept. of Homeland Security
Transportation Security Administration
Secret Service
Internal Revenue Service
US Senate
US House of Representatives
National Science Foundation
NASA
NSA
NSC
CIA
FBI

The cow in question, however, resided in Washington state.

I don't understand why the press is making such a big to-do about the thing.
From what I have heard, there have only been some 139 cases in human beings
in
the entire world. That's 139 out of some 3 billions......you have a far
better
chance of being struck by lightning or winning four lotteries within the same
year than you have of contracting that thing.


Try 6 billion people on Earth. You may be correct about the probabilities, but
why not try to stop the spread while it's still small?

Of the known human cases over 100 were in the UK if memory serves. They took
drastic actions and the spread from there has stopped.

Just think, if all the AIDS cases around the world had been quarantined when
the cases were in the few hundreds or thousands there wouldn't be the scale of
suffering we see now.

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired