On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 09:04:21 +0100, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois_Dovat?=
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>As for flu, I'm not absolutely sure, but it is highly probable there was
>none
>2 millions years ago. No wild animal living in its original environnment is
>known to have flu.

Each species has its specific diseases.

> When I ate cooked food (near SWD) I had very often severe
>flu. Now allmost never.

Well... "almost".


>F : Germs (bacterias, not trich !) are welcome to "instinctos" digestive
>tracks.

Not when meat starts to get an unpleasant odor.

P.S. read "Les plus anciennes traces de feu", in Les dossiers de Pour la
Science, Janvier 1999.
According to recent research, the first known hearths (sp?) are 450,000
years old.

(However, I don't know when exactly cooking became widespread.)