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The Corona Virus Epidemic
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 23rd February 2020The coronavirus epidemic has understandably caused much anxiety throughout the world. Uncertainty about what the new disease portends has wreaked havoc on the cruise ship industry and the airlines. The stock market which is always twitchy is still uncertain as to whether it should take a swan dive which is appropriate as COVID-19, as the…
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The New Flu
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 26th April 2009Medicine and microbes are engaged in a constant arms race. We develop a new treatment they counter with a mutation that defeats the treatment. The war never seems to end. Whether at some distant date, human ingenuity will triumph over blind dumb natural selection is problematic. Of course we may lose. The latest outbreak is…
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