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Pastimes : Clown-Free Zone... sorry, no clowns allowed

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To: Tom Smith who wrote (61210)1/24/2001 1:23:11 PM
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Yep. Those prions have no trouble species jumping do they?

I read this (below) when it came out. Scared the crap outta me. Scared my friends who just returned from London even worse. They developed a taste for bangers and mash while there and ate quite a bit of beef products.

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By the way, Rhodes is an excellent writer. His book on the atomic bomb was excellent.

In a similar vein The Hot Zone was fascinating and scarry too:

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I read "Deadly Feasts" when I was living in the flat hell of central IL. A man had died mysteriously of CJD at a Champaign-Urbana area hospital. The public health authorities were desperate to link this guy to a trip abroad. Finally after a few months they determined he had in fact made a trip to GB...but, they were sweating it.
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