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Biotech / Medical : SARS and Avian Flu -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: NOW who wrote (2809)	10/18/2005 12:51:10 AM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4232

Our world-wide reporting system is fairy good, but there are still cultural biases blinding health-care workers. HIV was in Africa many years before it was reported. People called it Slim Disease because the people wasted away. The WHO Doctors only saw Africans doing what they do best - wasting away from malnutrition. It wasn't until affluent people in America and Europe contracted a variant of the same disease extant in Africa, that it was recognized as a new disease. Several years later researchers realized that African Slim disease wasn't malnutrition, but the same new disease that was now reported in the industrialized nations. It defeats the entire purpose of the reporting system - isolating new pathogens where they've first evolved to provide a chance of isolating the spread or developing a cure before it becomes a pandemic. The peculiar variance in the incidence of SARS from one nation to another in one region almost certainly has to be a difference in reporting, rather than a difference in disease. Burma and Thailand share the same coastline, yet mysteriously there was no Tsunami in Burma (Myanmar) -- and you can be sent to prison for saying that there was. .