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To: JDN who wrote (16132)	5/6/1998 4:34:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 31646

[COWLES] Milwaukee outbreak 'Here's one link to the Milwaukee outbreak; you can find quite a few more if you do some research using the keywords 'cryptosporidiosis' and 'milwaukee'. One document I read attributed 54 deaths to this particular outbreak; over 400,000 people got sick from it. The link below is from the Center for Disease Control, so there's at least some credibility to it... cdc.gov On Mon, 04 May 1998 15:37:20 GMT, scottd@nbnet.nb.ca (Don Scott) wrote: >On Mon, 04 May 1998 06:10:08 -0500, Jerry Heidtke ><jheidtke@netreslt.com> wrote: > > ><snipped Cory's tm_year stuff> > >>Cory, >> >>I think your guess/estimate of 100 deaths due to tm_year mistakes is way >>too low. >> >>I'm expecting more than that just in this town (Milwaukee). We've >>already had a water system problem here that killed more than that. Contaminated >>water supply, incompetent management, and automated control systems that couldn't >>adapt to changing conditions all contributed to that fiasco. > ><snipped some of Jerry's stuff> > >>Jerry > >Do I understand correctly that the City of Milwaukee had a water >supply problem that killed > 100 people and that an automated control >system(s) was partly to blame? > >When? How? Point me to a reference, please. > >Thanks, >Don Scott > > -- Rick Cowles (Public PGP key on request) Now Shipping: "Electric Utilities and Y2k" - The Book euy2k.com ____ Subject: Re: Embedded systems again (was Re: Get serious ) From: rcowles@waterw.com (Rick Cowles) Date: 1998/05/04 Message-ID: <3561de15.15632426@enews.newsguy.com> Newsgroups: comp.software.year-2000 [More Headers] [Subscribe to comp.software.year-2000]