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    The Five Diseases You Should Worry About

    By Melinda Wenner Posted on 9.26.2008 5 Comments

    10.13.2008 at 05:43pm - Comment by momof3

    Do some people seriously think an insecticide causes a virus? How? How could something designed to kill organisms, create a different organism? I can dig on the web and find all sorts of sites saying martians live among us, but that doesn't make it true. Graphs or no.

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    Preventing an Outbreak: McCain and Obama on Pandemics

    By Stuart Fox Posted on 10.14.2008 11 Comments

    Question Six: Pandemic Flu

    Yesterday we looked at Senator Obama's and Senator McCain’s opinions on using science to protect Americans from other countries. Today, we look at the candidates’ plans to protect Americans from other organisms. In particular, influenza, which has killed more Americans than all the wars of the 20th Century, combined. Do the candidates have a record of bird flu awareness and bioterrorism prevention? Let’s take a look.

    10.13.2008 at 05:37pm - Comment by momof3

    Pandemics are good for mankind as a whole. Not much fun in the duration, but needed to thin the ranks. Can you imaginet he world if none of the previous pandemics had happened? If all those killed had survived to breed? Mass starvation, to say the least. Not a reason to vote Obama, certainly.



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