[texasbluebell]

If people are silly enough to be afraid of this trifling stuff, they're going to be in for a really rough decade or so ahead. There's some hairy sh!t to come. West Nile ain't it.

Well, hold on a sec here. I was listening to a doc from St. Vincent's hospital in NY, on Fox a little while ago. He says that an Iraqi defector in '97 said that Iraq had developed a particularly virulent form of WNV--and then the doc said "Interesting, but it shows up here in '99".

And then he said something else that caught me, that it could be they are testing to see how the regular form of it spreads, before they release the virulent strain...

[hellinahandcart]

And then he said something else that caught me, that it could be they are testing to see how the regular form of it spreads, before they release the virulent strain...

Nice of the Iraqis to effectively vaccinate us all in advance before releasing the virulent strain, wasn't it?

Think cowpox.

[hellinahandcart]

By the way, I am waiting for that segment to hopefully repeat, because the doc said something I am almost sure is incorrect (about that first summer and what it was called, but I don't want to say anything about it until I'm double-sure of what he said).

[hellinahandcart]

But maybe the doctor is simply like Leahy, and wants to waste time and resources pursuing West Nile phantoms instead of getting down to business on real threats.

Politicians do it, why not doctors?