In a message dated 99-07-02 01:33:29 EDT, you write:
<< Not long after that, the Reagan administration decided that it didn't like
the idea of sending out hundreds of thousands of MMWRs for free. A
very steep subscription charge was introduced, and so I stopped getting
it. >>
Sure, blame it on Reagan! At any rate, you can get now get Morbidity and
Mortality Weekly Report for free as weekly e-mail. Do a web search for their
page. However, in my 20+ years as a subscriber, I have found that the
journal has changed. In the old days, MMWR really was full of local color -
like the cabbage salad episode [Note to Ken - Muskrat Gommage at the pignic?]
The story that stands out in my memory was one where a guy barbecuing
hamburgers at a picnic found a dead rat in with the raw hamburgers, but,
since it was dead, figured it didn't matter and didn't mention it to anyone.
A more recent one was someone who woke up in his motel room with a dead bat
on his chest and a bite mark, but was just too darned busy to mention it to a
doctor - and died of rabies 8 days later.
But in my experience, that has become much more rare - maybe once every
couple of months, instead of every week, because the epidemiologists now get
to fiddle with monkey sniffles, Mad Cow Disease and other global,
plague-type issues.
Signed, Perfect Health
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