Strange new disease outbreaks

It's actually that people find it more comforting that disease outbreaks be bioterror instead of nature acting more or less randomly, believe it or not.

I have long had a pet theory that some of this is caused by grammar, which constricts the way some people can think. In English, we have to have an "it" that rains. "It" is raining. There's always an "it" or a "they" behind everything that happens. The structure of the language requires that it be so.

The world, on the other hand, does not give a damn about grammar. Or if it does, its favorite pronoun is "sh*t", as in "Sh*t happens." In some languages, this is not a problem. The Japanese ame ga furimasu ("It is raining") is more literally something like "As for rain, falling is true." There's no "it" behind the scenes making the rain happen. It just "happens." So in Japan, the big national fear revolves around horrible things just "happening." Fanciful monsters, giant earthquakes, that sort of thing. Their culture is full of that stuff, where ours is full of SMERSH and Bilderburgers and Illuminatis, shadowy powers so omnipotent they can practically make rain fall.

101 posted on 06/23/2003 9:35:29 AM PDT by Nick Danger (The liberals are slaughtering themselves at the gates of the newsroom)

Do you know anything about Eastern Equine Encephalitis?

102 posted on 06/24/2003 4:28:59 PM PDT by TBall

Do you know anything about Eastern Equine Encephalitis

Honestly, no- heard it mentioned, that's all- quick search:

CDC Fact Sheet: Eastern Equine Encephalitis - CDC Division of ...
Fact Sheet: Eastern Equine Encephalitis. ... ETIOLOGIC AGENT: Eastern equine encephalitis
virus, member of the family Togaviridae, genus Alphavirus. ...
www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/arbor/eeefact.htm - 22k - Cached - Similar pages

Epidemiologic Notes and Reports Eastern Equine Encephalitis -- Fl
August 09, 1991 / 40(31);533-535 Epidemiologic Notes and Reports Eastern
Equine Encephalitis -- Florida, Eastern United States, 1991. ...
Description: A report of five cases of this disease in Florida, Eastern United States, in 1991.
Category: Health > Conditions and Diseases > ... > Encephalomyelitis
www.cdc.gov/epo/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00014947.htm - 8k - Cached - Similar pages
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Eastern Equine Encephalitis Facts
Eastern Equine Encephalitis. Eastern equine encephalitis is a rare viral disease
that is spread by infected mosquitoes. ... What is Eastern equine encephalitis? ...
www.astdhpphe.org/infect/equine.html - 8k - Cached - Similar pages

NJDHSS, Communicable Disease Service: Eastern Equine Encephalitis
What You Should Know About. . . Eastern Equine Encephalitis. What is
Eastern Equine Encephalitis? ... Who gets Eastern Equine Encephalitis? ...
www.state.nj.us/health/cd/f_eee.htm - 6k - Cached - Similar pages

Questions Regarding Eastern Equine Encephalitis and Horses - ...
Questions Regarding Eastern Equine Encephalitis and Horses. by Wayne
J. Crans, Associate Research Professor in Entomology. Rutgers ...
www.rci.rutgers.edu/~insects/heee.htm - 11k - Cached - Similar pages

Eastern Equine Encephalitis
The Minnesota Department of Health provides facts about Eastern Equine Encephalitis.
Home, ... Eastern Equine Encephalitis. What is Eastern equine encephalitis? ...
www.health.state.mn.us/divs/dpc/ades/wnv/eee-facts.htm - 13k - Cached - Similar pages

MCMEC - Eastern Equine Encephalitis
... Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE). Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) is of
concern throughout the coastal regions of the eastern United States. ...
www.visitmonmouth.com/mosquito/eee.html - 7k - Cached - Similar pages

103 posted on 06/24/2003 4:33:16 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the sunset...)

Thanks, I just recently learned about EEE while doing a search on West Nile. Figured it would be a useful addition to your thread.

104 posted on 06/24/2003 4:53:26 PM PDT by TBall

Figured it would be a useful addition to your thread.

It surely does, and it's nasty stuff.

105 posted on 06/24/2003 5:03:06 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the sunset...)

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CDC Investigating Three Cases Of Tularemia Reported In Lincoln (Nebraska)
theomahachannel ^

106 posted on 06/25/2003 1:24:43 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the sunset...)

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NEW SARS CASE IN CHINA
Sky News ^ | 4-25-03

107 posted on 06/25/2003 3:14:13 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the sunset...)

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China Makes Breakthrough in SARS Vaccine, Drug
People Daily (China) ^ | 06.26.03

108 posted on 06/26/2003 9:52:52 AM PDT by backhoe

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Hepatitis A outbreak spreading quickly in Ukraine
Jerusalem Post ^ | Jun. 26, 2003 | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

109 posted on 06/26/2003 11:59:41 AM PDT by backhoe

110 posted on 06/27/2003 12:40:50 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the sunset...)

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Going but not gone yet (SARS)
Houston Chronicle ^ | June 30 2003 | Reuters

111 posted on 06/30/2003 12:09:00 AM PDT by backhoe

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Report: DE Tot Dies from Tick Bite - Authorities Think Rabbit Fever Possible
WPVI.com - Philadelphia radio ^ | July 1, 2003 | Staff

112 posted on 07/01/2003 5:44:48 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the sunset...)

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African Rats Confirmed Monkeypox Source in U.S.
Reuters/Washinton Post ^ | 7/2/03 | Maggie Fox

113 posted on 07/02/2003 2:06:03 PM PDT by backhoe

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Equine Encephalitis Worries Southeast
SunSpot.net ^ | July 4, 2003 | DANIEL YEE

115 posted on 07/05/2003 4:53:08 PM PDT by backhoe

116 posted on 07/08/2003 11:44:18 AM PDT by TBall

117 posted on 07/08/2003 3:43:30 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the sunset...)

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Officials baffled by reported increase in Legionnaires' disease
Associated Press ^ | 07-12-03

118 posted on 07/12/2003 1:28:37 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the sunset...)

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Algeria: Plague "scare" real - 8 were bubonic and 2 the deadlier septicaemic kind.
BBC News On Line ^ | Thursday, 10 July, 2003 | staff writer

119 posted on 07/14/2003 10:24:48 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the sunset...)

120 posted on 07/14/2003 12:11:19 PM PDT by TBall

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