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Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 9 May 2000 14:57:14 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Peter White writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> If you want to really get worried, think about mosquito-borne diseases, in a
> world that is slowly warming, these are the growing concerns.
Agreed. Fortunately, ours isn't (slowly warming). At least that's what the data
indicate when not interpreted by "junk science" advocates.
> An insect-borne disease is much more of a problem than a sexually-transmitted
> one, not to mention our growing reliance on an ever lessening number of
> antibiotics.
THIS one, now this one is something to worry about. Keep messing with the drug
company profit models in large markets the way the US considered doing, and the
UK already does, and you won't have any drug company R&D to find new ones
either.
++Lar
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| (...) data (...) Everything I have read lately has been confirming that the world is indeed slowly warming (currently). Whether this is a natural phenomenon or not seems to be much more under debate. I'll ask my best personal source his opinions (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?
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| (...) Pretty much everything I’ve read or seen indicates that scientists generally agree we are in a warming trend, but those scientists don’t agree on the ultimate effects of that warming. For that matter, they don’t even agree whether it’s a (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?
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| (...) ummm.... try reading this: (URL) especially the first sentance. also (URL) you mean that the world is 'warming quickly' as opposed to 'slowly warming', I will have to disagree with you. The earth is still in rebound from the last ice age. It (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) In Australia, the number of newly infected has actually levelled out. Not sure if it was the education campaign that was aimed at the general population on prime-time TV here in the mid-eighties. (...) vector (...) organism (...) There are (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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