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To: elmatador who wrote (30617)	4/2/2003 2:28:40 PM
From: Moominoid	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

<1) Mad Cow Desease 2) Global warming 3) Ozone Layer hole> All three are serious problems but all three of low health risk to most people in the World. The SARS death rate does seem pretty high and it seems contagious... If 4% of people falling ill are dying including very healthy people that is a big cause for concern. Ozone layer hole may have had implications for people in Southern Australia and Argentina. Now we have done something about it and it is beginning to stablize and repair. Of course in the end if nothing was done the implications could be much worse. The same on global warming. We have quite a lot of time to do something on that. So far the health implications for people are minor and often exaggerated (our own research shows it is not implicated in increased Malaria in Kenya which was claimed). The biggest scare of all though is the supposed threat of HIV/AIDS to average people in developed countries. It is a tremendously serious problem in Africa and maybe in some parts of Asia and in some subgroups in the West. But given transmittability, typical behavior, and precautions taken in the medical area it isn't a risk to most people in developed countries.... David