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 Post subject: Good advice from the CDC
PostPosted: Sun Jun 08, 2003 10:18 pm 
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New York Times:<p> The CDC urged people to avoid contact with prairie dogs and Gambian rats that have
missing
patches of fur, rashes or discharges from their eyes or nose, all signs of the illness.


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 Post subject: Re: Good advice from the CDC
PostPosted: Sun Jun 08, 2003 10:41 pm 
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The news desk and I thank you for the great laugh. Like I noted earlier in the work shift, any day you can get "monkeypox" in a headline is a good day.


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 Post subject: Re: Good advice from the CDC
PostPosted: Sun Jun 08, 2003 11:01 pm 
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 Post subject: Re: Good advice from the CDC
PostPosted: Mon Jun 09, 2003 10:10 am 
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I'm guessing that any person who is coming into regular contact with prairie dogs and Gambian rats that have missing patches of fur, rashes or discharges has a lot of serious health/lifestyle issues beyond a simple fear of contracting monkeypox.<p>And I say that as a resident of a state teeming with hantavirus and bubonic plague and as a fate-tempting man with a fear of a silly death, for which monkeypox would certainly fit the bill.


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