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And those Cuban physicians are probably used to make do with rather meager resources and suplies...

Boy, is that a great point. They are.

Nonsequitur. I expect that perhaps a year from now, the CDC will publish a special edition of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report that will just review the effects of Katrina. I haven't kept up with MMWR -- I used to read it every week as part of my job -- but I am going to be very interested to read that issue. I hope this doesn't sound like morbid curiousity, but I am going to be very interested to look at cause of death -- numbers relating to gunshots, say -- but more interestingly things like tetanus. I can't think of a higher risk situation than people wading around in a muddy flood, and that MMWR may give a clue as to what kind of a public health job we've been doing in cities like NO.

I'm going to guess that everybody on the BBS is current on their tetanus booster. If there are worse ways to die, I can't think of them.
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Jim


'Tis the exceptional fellow who lies awake at night thinking of his successes.