That's one of the bad things about working around soldiers, too, Phil.  They
go all over the world and can pick up anything, and bring it back home.
Smile.

Paul
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 2:44 PM
Subject: Re: Hospital cost


> Paul,
>
> I believe what you said is true.  I mean, I think they are trying to close
> the barn door after the horse has already gone.  At any rate, whatever
this
> flue type is, it won't kill you but you'll wish you would die just to get
> over it.  I know what happen here in Colorado.  Some dad blamed foreigner,
> who doesn't know how to ride a horse and doesn't wear a cowboy hat or
cowboy
> boots, flew in from overseas and brought this thing with them.  Gots to
> blame somebody for it.  And to think Denver just had to built an
> international airport so we could get direct flights from all over the
> planet.  Of course, the West Nyle virus last summer was no picnic here in
> Colorado either.  I sure hope that thing goes away or they come up with
some
> shot for it or something.  They had a few cases of West Nile over in Idaho
> right at the end of the mosquito season.  So they are thinking it will
> continue west next season.  What I can't figure out is why big mosquito
> states like Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, a state with more
> mosquitoes than any five states, and then, of course, theres Nebraska,
North
> and South Dakota, and think of Missouri and all the southern states.  I
just
> can't figure out how Colorado was so hard hit compared to the rest of the
> country.  It makes you wonder if the dumb virus is going to move back and
> forth across the country until they come up with a vaccine.
>
> Phil.