Hi Jane,
 > AF> > Got an American military base handy?  See if the medical folks there
 > can
 > AF> > be persuaded to show you the list of common diseases that our Air
 > Force
 > AF> > medics at McChord must be aware of when receiving injured or ill 
folks
 > AF> > from other nations.
 > AF> I know all about that Jane as I was on a joint U.K./U.S. Air
 > AF> Force base (Wildenrath in Germany) back in the late 60s. You have
 > That information is growing moss.  You need an update into what is going
 > on now, decades after penicillin and the other wonder antibiotics have
 > screwed things up royally.
 Neither the diseases not the countries where they come from have
 changed much since then.
 > You keep insisting that only sick people get sick and I know that this
 > is just not true.
 I keep insisting that mostly UNHEALTHY people get sick, i.e. get
 sick rather than being sick from the word go due to some hereditary
 ailment. And I keep insisting that the majority of illnesses are
 basically due to disturbed bacterial flora in the intestines
 (these flora represent the largest part of our immune system and
 are just as (some claim even more) important than the lymphocytes
 and killer cells etc. in the bloodstream.
 Alan
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