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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (5413)	10/16/2001 1:52:45 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi Nadine Carroll; Re the reasons why small pox isn't as much of a threat now as it once was. Here's some more: 4) They have much better medical care. 5) They are more genetically diverse. [Germs evolve every time they infect someone, and the evolution is generally in the direction of what is more effective. It's worse to catch a cold from your brother than to catch the "same" cold from a complete stranger.] 6) They have access to better food. 7) They have better clothing and shelter 8) They understand how diseases are spread better. 9) They're cleaner. 10) They're healthier. Most of the above reasons are also reasons why Hawking is wrong in his fear that the world will kill off the humans over the next thousand years. Our real problem will be excessively intelligent machinery, I'm afraid. -- Carl