> Thanks for your reply. Is it just my imagination or is there an 
 > explosion of these types of diseases in the last few years? It 
 > sounds pretty serious to me. Are they making any progress in 
 > fighting them, or do we stand on the edge of a deep, dark chasm?
 BC> Don't know if we're seeing more of them in terms of 
 BC> percentage.  Seeing more in terms of actual 
 BC> numbers, but that is raw data and pretty 
 BC> meaningless.
 
It would seem to me possible that they've been around all along, but were not 
recognized as separate disorders.  Additionally, I would guess that children 
with these disorders are more vulnerable to becoming very ill from the 
regular diseases of childhood which used to kill many children - diptheria, 
measles, etc.
 
So they would have died of something else before the disease manifested 
itself.
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